Thursday, January 04, 2007

Soft Cotton


While out Christmas shopping, I came across this shop on rue Mazarine in St. Germain called Coton Doux. I loved the colours of these shirts so much that I asked the storekeeper if he'd mind me taking a photo for you. Ok, I did buy a couple of ties as well! Soon I suppose this stuff will be on sale, good thing I come back to Paris today...

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  1. Yes, the colors are so attractive! Looking at the picture at first I thought they were hats!
    Have a safe trip home, Eric.

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  2. There's some loud looking shirts. Be a brave man to wear them.

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  3. Even the presentation of shirts look better in a Paris shop. Love the colors.
    And welcome home, Eric.

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  4. I must say, I agree with Gail's man! Some of the colors are reminiscent of the psychedelic years, and after all didn't Antoinne (French singer of the late 60's) have one just like that when he sang "Ma mére m'a dit 'Antoinne va te faire couper les cheveux', j'ai répondu 'dans 20 ans si tu veux'" ? ;)

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  5. when are "les soldes???"

    i hope it's when i'm there..... haha...

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  6. I loved that street. And not to compete with Eric's pic but here is a picture I took while on the street.

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  7. Les soldes begin le 10 janvier... wish I was there!

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  8. Nice shirts. I wouldn't use many of them at work though...
    LOL

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  9. ooh! i've passed that same store many times. thanks for taking the photo i've always wanted to take but never had the guts to ask for permission. :)

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  11. Did you notice you've stolen almost the entire year from us?The post is dated le 4 Decembre 2007!

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  12. Franchement t'aurais pu faire l'effort de traverser la rue et de monter au 5 étage. La vue sur le magazin est superbe depuis le balcon de R. !

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  13. For some reason, this brings to mind the similar sounding Jermyn Street (St.) of London where beautiful shirts are made and i used to go many years ago to buy them. One at a time i might add! This is a great shot, well spotted for its colours and variety.
    Welcome back; you're home! Yey. Have a croissant (see yesterday).

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  14. Is tomorrow's photo going to be of you in one of your ties?

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  15. I think it should be one of Eric wearing his new tie, by the Eiffel Tower, red rose in his teeth, holding the hand of a lady in red who is ironing his shirt. He would be balancing on his scooter whilst erecting a tent with his foot.

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  16. Lynn you had me scared there for a second. I thought your lust for Eric was getting out of hand...

    There's something here about the "shirt off his back", but not quite sure what it is...

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  17. Ha! Fab Michael this was great to see a recent photo of Eric, so nonchalant there, waiting to receive luck. Ahh and doesn't he look happy? He was looking forward to munching my croissant of course. No, no euphemism Michael (guffaw) and i do not possess lust for Eric, merely fondness, affection and admiration. LOL. You thought i had a rose/ironing/tent fetish going on did you? Sorry to disappoint he he it's great to have you back Michael x

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  18. Actually, it was the word before "tent" that had me worried! ;-)

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  19. This is such a great photo. Very colorful. You have a great eye for photography!

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  20. LOL !!! well i can't deny the choice of words was intended... the imagery, goodness! I might just need a lie down. We have like minds Michael. lol.

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  21. Yes, Michael, I saw this photo of Eric and I immediately thought of the photo of Dave that I published in Johnnysarc with him next to Montaigne near the Sorbonne in October. Montaigne's statue has a shinny golden "toe of shoe" also. I am sure the statue was long before Harvard's. I wonder if there are other statues of this nature with the shinny shoe toe?? We could start a collection? LOL

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  22. We know where you shop now... we are stalking you... we follow you everywhere... we are breath just behind your neck. Can you feel us approaching?

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  23. Eric - I am sure that Paris was not quite the same while you were away...

    Michael - I thought the word that caught your attention in Lynn's comment was "erecting."
    And thanks for the photo from BostonPhoto, which I will try to visit once in a while.

    Johnnyparsons - I think that the most interesting of those is the statue of Victor Noir on his tomb at the Père Lachaise cemetery. Noir was a 19th century journalist who was shot in a duel in 1870. He was quite a playboy, and, on his grave, is a "live-size casting depiction of how he was found. a certain part of his anatomy is quite prominent, and women hoping to get pregnant have rubbed it for luck, so the bronze is pretty shiny there." to see it in all of its splendor, go here, and look up "Victor Noir," his tomb site will flicker, click on it, and voilà!

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  24. Well! Elisabeth how upstanding of you to provide additional info for we DP members. It came as quite a treat and perked me up no end! Though i couldn't get it up via your link, - it just showed a map with tips marked - which rather bored me stiff but so keen was i to see it (for educational reasons) that i tapped into a search engine and googled it. On demand, as was his bent, up came the image, straight away. Unbending in my research, I rigidly observed the article, devoured the history - one can actually feel it - but sadly I could not touch, as you no doubt have? (do tell) Anyway, most satisfying info, thanks!

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  25. Oh you guys! Putting such images in my innocent little head!

    Welcome back Eric! I'm loving these shirts. I'd love to buy a couple and surprise Jeff with them and force him to wear them to the office. Perhaps to the metings that I come along for. Oh he'd hate me! About how much might these shirts go for when the sale starts? I may have to Paypal someone some money and get one of you trustworthy folks in Paris to buy a few of the "louder" shirts to ship to me! I'm digging that one on the third shelf down in the center. The one with the blue, orange, and purple circles! Oh how Jeff would kill me! He has been talking about how he needs new business clothes, though!

    Ok, I just got me a nice new Gevalia coffee maker and bought the best tasting blueberry coffee last night (not Gevalia!) and now I'm totally buzzed. Think I'll go do some cleaning and throwing Owen around and maybe some reading if I can sit still enough. If only the Wii could find those socks that Owen lost!

    Have a great day folks! Since I am now jobless (by choice) I will be botherin-er...checking in a lot more! You poor people!

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  26. No that's good news for us, Soosha. More virtual tours around Paris together then. Great. I'd quite like a coffee maker myself. Like you, i am cleaning and keep coming back to the laptop for some brain stimulation. I love cleaning, when i've finished it. During it, i loathe it. I like all the shirts of the white variety. White plain white, white background, they'll do for me. Smart, simple.

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  27. Oh, I love men's shirts. Some of them are pretty wild looking!

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  28. I personally like fun and funky shirts! Especially if they're embarassing the *@!# out of Jeff. He's an old man stuck in a 25 year old body, so he likes conservative clothes. I swear, some day I'm gonna come home with some gawdawful shirt that's totally tacky and very very bright and insist he wears it to his next appointment. It'd be even better if I spent a small fortune on it to buy it and have it shipped here from France, cause then he'd feel obligated to wear it, otherwise it'd be a big waste of money!

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  29. Elizabeth, darling,
    We missed that reposed statue at Pere Chaise...Montaigne and Harvard will have to go some to beat Victor Noir's shiny thingy. I imagine we'll find more golden toes than golden thingys around the world. LOL
    Michael....does "ironing" have a meaning I don't know about? I must get a dictionary of American slang.LOL

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  30. Elisabeth: How funny! Thanks for showing us that. But honestly, I didn't think he looked that well endowed ;).

    Lynn: You click on the marker that shows and the the full size picture will come up.

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  31. I don't know, Johnny, surely with all the naked statues in the world, we can find lots of 'thingys' for our collection. Whether they'd take the firm position of that one, probably not, but hey, still useful... er i mean interesting. I vote thingys over toes, for sure. It'd be an uplifting experience. Let's shake it up a little, see what comes of it. We could have a thingy theme day even. Am i alone? I reckon Soosha'll be with me on this. Back up please Soosh!

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  32. Oh boy did I miss you and your comments!

    Elisabeth it's really funny you brought back this Victor Noir story because that is exactly what my friend in Boston told me when I was touching John, Harvard's foot. And I must say I did not know about this guy. Now I HAVE to go to Père Lachaise and take a photo of him, of course!


    About Les Soldes (thanks for letting us know about the date Buzz girl, I did not even know!). Well I don't know how much these shirts will sell for Soosha, but I'll check. I won't be buying much at the sales in Paris this year I must say because I already bought lots of stuff in the US where not only the sales had already started but on top of that due to the exchange rate everything was really affordable (not to mention a stop in New Hampshire where there is no sales tax!)

    Off to bed now I have some sleep to catch up...

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  33. Ohhh..just missed you, as you are off to bed..but welcome back[to PDP...LOL..]too bad I can't welcome you back to Paris[being in San Francisco]but you understand!!?? Did you get to the Gardner museum in Boston?? I went to college right around the corner from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and spent many a wintry afternoon in the courtyard garden that is in bloom year round. A favorite place of this Boston[now San Francisco]boy!! Bon Nuit!!

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  34. Hmm, it appears my last post didn't go through! Oh well, it just said something like this:

    rofl! lynn, I think I'd back you up on just about anything! You're too funny!

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  35. rofl! lynn, I think I'd back you up on just about anything!

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  36. Good to hear, Soosha, good to hear! Johnny's not replied yet as to the collection. We'll see. lol.

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  37. I like the blues and purples, and all the different patterns. My dad would look good in some of those shirts. Next time we come to Paris we're going to go there and buy my dad some shirts. -- says my almost-8-year old daughter Abbey. And I'd like to add that I stayed on Rue Mazarine the first time I came to Paris and I remember this shop quite well -thanks for the memory! :)

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  38. Well, it's now the 15th of January and I went by this shop today to see what the sale prices were like. 35euros for one shirt and 100 euros for three. Still interested Soosha?

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