Jamie Cat Callan wrote me, "I wonder what your thoughts are on red lipstick? Do French girls wear it?"
This is a troublesome question. Certainment you see an awful lot of red lipsticks in Paris department stores Bon Marche, Printemps, Galeries Lafayette. 
But do you see any French girls wearing red lipstick/rouge a levres? I don't. Red shoes? Oui, bien sur!
Le parfume rouge? Il existe!
La manteau rouge/red coats? On every street corner
Le meme chose with little red smart cars.
Red stockings in the red Metro? Why not?
If you're going to a bistro you will see rouge (the red meat)
Will a French girl sit at a table rouge? Pas de problem.
And write with a red pencil in a red cahier/notebook from adorable Marie-Papier on rue Vavin? Pourquoi pas?
A 4:30 gouter/snack of macarons framboise or fraise 🍓 may pass her lips.
Or any Parisien patisserie even a gateaux de rouge.
Pierre Herme Ispahan, watercolor
Red stockings in the red Metro? Why not? 
If you're going to a bistro you will see rouge (the red meat)
Will a French girl sit at a table rouge? Pas de problem. 
And write with a red pencil in a red cahier/notebook from adorable Marie-Papier on rue Vavin? Pourquoi pas?
A 4:30 gouter/snack of macarons framboise or fraise 🍓 may pass her lips.
Or any Parisien patisserie even a gateaux de rouge. 
Pierre Herme Ispahan, watercolor
