I'm giving the article at this link because the original is at the Telegraph where I have a subscription and think it may not be accessible there.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/life.....pes-we-don
Title:
Parisian women are bored of tired style stereotypes: ‘We don’t dress like that’
It's ironic that with all the delineations trying to capture the innate qualities of French style for the non-French, that even the French are said to be striving to achieve this:
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“It's not like London where you can be very creative and dress up in whatever you want and look fabulous,” she says. “In France it’s good to look the same as everyone else."
In other words, they do dress like that.
ETA: if you like parisiansinparis streetstyle instagram there are plenty of international instagrams of the back view of locals shlepping around.
Like stockholmersinstockholm romansinrome milaneseinmilan