https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:54:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514508 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:43:27 +0000 crutcher 1514508@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What fun to see Paris with you and your DH at your 50th!...I love the idea of a Hemingway walk..lost generation,Gertrude Stein, Poor Little lambs...<br />I would love to do that...<br />Your pictures are precious...<br />Wonderful memories..THX for sharing.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514250 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 20:02:12 +0000 Ruth M 1514250@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ms Maven, thank you so much for posting this account and your lovely photographs - it was a treat to share in your special trip.&nbsp; Congratulations and belated Happy Anniversary to you and your DH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514204 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:51:50 +0000 Keturah 1514204@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>All I can say is how wonderful your story, your trip, and your loving marriage all is! Thank you for sharing it with us, Ms Maven. You both look so stylish and more importantly, so happy </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514193 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:34:17 +0000 Maneera 1514193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Omg, you were a beautiful bride and such an elegant Mother of the Groom! Simply beautiful. Love the Paris photos...you and your husband make a handsome couple who are visibly very happy together till date It warms my heart </p> <p>The pictures of Paris are gorgeous, thanks for sharing. I also really enjoyed your report on Parisian fashion, and look forward to the next post on shopping. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514175 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:37:13 +0000 Beth Ann 1514175@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congrats on 50 years as a couple!&nbsp; I'm so glad you did some special to celebrate and strengthen your relationship.&nbsp; It sounds like a glorious trip.&nbsp; The older pics were so fun to see --- you look vibrant and sweet!&nbsp; I also appreciate the pic of your family, before the too early loss of your son.&nbsp; It's important to find little ways of acknowledging the presence and value of missing loved ones in the family.</p> <p>I think your travel wardrobe is fab -- love you dark wash, excellent pants, your subdued and sensible, but still sleek shoes, and your rich and fun scarves.&nbsp; The best element of all is your swingy and fresh hair -- loving the color and the shape! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514173 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:31:19 +0000 cjh 1514173@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for sharing and congratulations on the special anniversary. Your wedding pictures are gorgeous! You must be proud and so happy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514122 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:16:16 +0000 MsMaven 1514122@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for all your compliments. My mother made my wedding dress for my older sister, who graciously let me wear it for my wedding. I'm both taller and bigger around than her, so Mom had to add a satin panel down the back so that it could be buttoned up and I could breathe.&nbsp;</p> <p>CocoC, the statue is outside the Caen Memorial Museum and has been the subject of criticism by French feminists. It is on loan to the museum for a year.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514092 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:58:01 +0000 jackiec 1514092@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a grand way to celebrate a momentus anniversary! Congratulations! I loved reading about your trip, and seeing the wonderful photos. Thank you for sharing. You are a marvellous traveller and look perfectly dressed in every shot. I was in Paris at a similar time 2 years ago, and this brings back happy memories. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1514084 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:45:04 +0000 donnat 1514084@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thankyou for this post. I am very much enjoying your wonderful pictures.<br /> and am looking forward to the shopping post. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513975 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:47:01 +0000 kellygirl 1513975@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing your trip! The details and photos are wonderful. I especially loved the wedding photos. You are a handsome couple--then and now!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513969 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 04:41:19 +0000 Ginkgo 1513969@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wonderful photos! Thank you for " bringing us along". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513967 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 04:26:39 +0000 Cococat 1513967@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What fabulous photos! Thank you for sharing them. </p> <p>Your wedding photos are gorgeous and how amazing that you got your wedding party together again in pic 4. I love the necklines of the 60s dresses BTW.</p> <p>Your pics bring back memories of my Paris trip last year. I was there the same time as you. I have both good and bad memories. Some locals were so unfriendly and then some were just lovely. It was such a contrast. We also went to war areas, the Western front for us, Ypres in Belgium where my great uncle died on the battlefield and my grandfather was in the area as a 'runner'. </p> <p>The sculpture was at Omaha Beach? Love it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513931 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 02:47:42 +0000 Suz 1513931@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a wonderful anniversary trip! Thank you for sharing with us, and such beautiful wedding pictures, too. I feel honoured, like a special guest! It looks as if the hotel treated you very well, and you look stylish and smart in every single photo. I have only been to Paris once, many years ago, and I long to return. Your photos sharpen that longing.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513928 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 02:41:57 +0000 Jaime 1513928@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures! You were beautiful and graceful as a bride and remain so today. Love all the shots of Paris too. Looks like a wonderful celebration! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513882 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:23:52 +0000 Sveta 1513882@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What an awesome anniversary trip! Fun old wedding pictures too &nbsp;- you were a beautiful bride and a very elegant Mother of the Groom too.<br />Thank you for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513880 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:15:54 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1513880@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing, Ms Maven. I have such odd memories of Paris, having visited it at various points in life. At age 7 I went with my mom and my main recollection is a trip to a safari park at Thoiry, outside the city. Then I was there with my family in whatever year it was that Charles and Diana got married, and my younger sisters felt it necessary to go to an ice skating rink in addition to the usual suspects like Notre Dame. I was there on my own one January in college in the late 1980s, on my way to a semester in Egypt, probably the last time ever that the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay were not crowded. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513878 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:12:02 +0000 carter 1513878@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your trip with us. These pictures and your narrative are are really fantastic. I had to chuckle at the picture of Les Deux Magots. We walked by it several times this time last year as we shopped around the Ste Germaine area. I kept forgetting to look up the translation so every time we saw it we would make up a new translation. Fun memories! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513876 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:05:14 +0000 MsMaven 1513876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>He got two new pairs of Mephistos. It took all three of us to drag him to the men's shoe department at Galleries Lafayette and almost force him to buy them. Much better price than at home, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513874 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:58:48 +0000 Aida 1513874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh how fun, thank you for sharing your wonderful trip with us! (And also those beautiful wedding photos, sooooo lovely). I really enjoyed reading about your experiences this trip and how they tied in to various other trips and experiences from the past. Very sweet of you two take your son and daughter-in-law for such a special trip. Your hair is so pretty by the way! Looking forward to part three, shopping ^^ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513867 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:45:46 +0000 Anonymous 1513867@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look lovely in each photo.&nbsp; What a special trip and you were very generous to include DS and DIL.&nbsp; Your dessert makes me swoon.&nbsp; Did DH get a new pair of shoes?</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513861 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:28:12 +0000 Carla 1513861@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gosh! Looks like a fantastic trip done in grand style. Trips with an element of personal interest are so much more fascinating, IMO, and that you share a common interest with DH is wonderful. Love your Loiuse Brooks style bob in your Paris pictures.</p> <p>Looking forward to your shopping post!</p> <p>PS: I love your wedding dress! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/some-paris-trip-photos--long#post-1513860 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:14:21 +0000 MsMaven 1513860@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I begin with a few photos of June 23, 1965, three of them of the wedding. The photo of the bridesmaids is complimented by a photo of the group 40 years later at my son's wedding. I've also included a family photo to introduce you to my firstborn, who died in 2004 just before his 38th birthday.&nbsp;</p> <p>We decided to celebrate our 50th anniversary in that most romantic of cities, Paris, which we had not visited together since 1986. DH had traveled to Europe frequently on business and his favorite hotel was the Scribe. He wrote to them and the staff was wonderful. We invite my younger son and his wife, and they were thrilled to go.&nbsp;</p> <p>I've had foot problems and I knew that I would have to find shoes that could bear me through lots of walking. As it turned out, our first day out to explore the city DH also developed foot problems. His "walking" shoes no longer worked for him. Fortunately my SAS did pretty well for me, although they aren't exactly chic. I switched to better shoes in the evening.&nbsp;</p> <p>I watched &nbsp;the weather forecast and until the day before we left it looked wonderful, but at the last minute the prediction was for cooler temperatures and rain. At the last minute I changed my plans and took different items. I'll explain how that worked in What I Bought.</p> <p>The Scribe was ready for us. I've included a couple of photos of what awaited for us the first evening. (By the way, when you can't walk another step, a glass of French wine really helps with foot pain.) The hotel provided all four of us with the breakfast buffet (also, forgot to take photos of it) free of charge. We had rooms next to each other. In addition to a fruit plate and goodies every night, they gave us free bottles of water every day, and offered complimentary spa treatments that we didn't have time to take advantage of. They asked DH for a photo, and had it printed up and framed. It was taken at Times Square in 2006 and is a little dark. (I can't find the original.)</p> <p>In the late 90s we watched a TV show to help us learn the language better, French in Action. We started watching it again (it's on YouTube now) and it helped. Overall the Parisians were great.</p> <p>DH and I have taken several art history classes as well as a class called "American Writers in 20th Century France," and classes in philosophy and existentialism. Ages ago I read books on Paris in the 20s and 50s, <i>Women of the Left Bank,</i> <i>Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation,</i> along with many biographies of the Lost Generation characters. We decided we wanted to do a Hemingway walk.&nbsp;</p> <p>My DIL's father was assigned to Normandy a few weeks after the initial invasion and she wanted to go see it. She and DS aren't that interested in art, so we arranged a private tour of the Louvre that ended with champagne, gourmet lunch, including more wine. Then we were on our own. We saw the results of the excavations that had just begun in 1986--fascinating finds.</p> <p>Many experiences and overall a good trip. Outside the Louvre a teenage boy tried to distract DH and grabbed his iPhone out of his chest pocket. This in the middle of the street. DH grabbed it right back and yelled at the kid, who disappeared. After having his briefcase robbed from us 3 years ago at the Zurich train station, we were all on alert. Still I was surprised at how brazen the kid was.</p> <p>Photos 1-4 June 23, 1965 and the bridesmaids again in 2005. My two sisters, my good friend who lives in So Cal, and my sister-in-law. (She wears the white outfit to everybody's wedding.)&nbsp;</p> <p>5-6 The Scribe and the welcome.</p> <p>7 Family photo from about 1999.</p> <p>8-14 photos of first day walking around past the Louvre, over the bridge to the Left Bank for lunch, ending up at Luxembourg Gardens where the main characters from French in Action, Robert and Mireille, met on a park bench, perhaps the same one where we were sitting. We ended up having a dinner of mussels at Leon's of Bruxelles near our hotel.</p> <p>15 Rain predicted, so I'm wearing the North Face jacket--only time.&nbsp;</p> <p>16-19 &nbsp;Roof of Musee d'Orsay, under construction on our first visit, an Egyptian Goddess, and selfie inside the Pyramid. DH had bought a selfie stick, but gave it to our son instead. Lots of tourists in town. Someday I want to visit the Louvre during an off season.<br />&nbsp;<br />20-22 Train to Caen, where we rented a car to drive to Normandy. I'm wearing one of my new scarves. Stops at museums and Omaha &nbsp;Beach. Even though we were at the American Cemetery, it was startling to me when the carillon began playing "America the Beautiful" on the half hour.&nbsp;</p> <p>23-29 Latter part of our Hemingway walk with lunch at Les Deux Magots. The day before we'd had wine at the Closerie de Lilas, but I don't have the photos yet from that day. Next is the location of the original home of Shakespeare &amp; Co, 27 Rue de Fleurus, home of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and last the "new" Shakespeare" bookstore. What a great place to browse. Of course it isn't anything like it was back when Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound were there.</p> <p>30-32 On June 23 we ended up drinking champagne at the Bar at the Grand Hotel across the street from the Scribe. We weren't dressed up, but they have a less formal dining terrace and they graciously let us have dinner there. We went back across the street for dessert at the Scribe. And more champagne. Here I am in another of my new scarves. Dessert and the "plate."&nbsp;</p> <p>Shopping will be another post. </p>