Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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"Le Coiffure Pouff"



But what does this word so funny?, Will ask many, it is the biggest extravaganza of the reign of Marie Antoinette, though she is the highest benchmark in terms of eighteenth-century fashion , not only in terms of clothing but also this strange hairstyle in vogue for almost over a decade, the most extravagant rose mounds of hair on the heads of the ladies of the court, wreaking havoc on your aching necks adorned diamonds and lace, but like many women know of this century were characterized by very frivolous, and thus these large heads were empty or full of lice and very fragrant white powder.



What is striking about this peculiar hairstyle is that since the hair root rose nearly a meter or even more, giving us an impressive picture of a woman to make their presentation in the lounge, hair were greased or in some cases there were some scented creams to tighten the hair and do not let this lose the required form, now if the lady was of ancestry is saved all the agony of having to sit for hours in her boudoir, to prepare for a dance or a ceremony, just put on a wig and it was enough, now the most demanding or more vain hair care, washing oils perfumed, and when designing the pouf, made his own voluminous hair extensions sticking meters.

hair was not only the pouf, also increased its volume increases, ribbons, beads, flowers, fruits, arising, in order emeralds had no limit, but the curious thing Pouf was not only its obvious size, but was that this on top of the mound of hair, had a special reason and this could be the gossip of the day. From the inspired Pouf King inoculation pouf de l'inoculation, until the revolt in Paris, but the pouf of Marie Antoinette that impact and left its mark in the history books as the greatest fashion extravagance, was the Independence Pouf, celebrating the triumph of French over the English ships, the coiffure consisted of a replica of a French ship on top of the pouf, the author of this extravagance was the faithful hairdresser Leonard, who each morning visiting his majesty to build a new building with a new theme, of course, this should be the news of the day. Could take houses, mills, gardens, palaces, birds, all I could imagine, there was no limit to this trend, the coiffure à la lphigénie composed of ribbons of mourning and the crescent of Diana. And until the revolution it became fashionable, when looted bakeries in Paris during the crisis of hunger, this frivolous courtly society can not do anything more important than showing this event on the bonnets of the Revolt.


"I can not stop me from hitting a point where, very often, I find repeated in the newspapers, I mean your hair. It is said that from the hair root, have thirty-six inches high, and above there are still feathers and bows. "



Maria Theresa of Austria Marie Antoinette.




Maria Fedeorovna - Tsarina of Russia's fashion (when she was Princess)
Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine Duchess of Teschen (sister of Marie Antoinette)
Uldarico Luisa Queen of Denmark - also in fashion Pouf
Hispanic Lady of fashion to also know that in these parts of Chic was well filled with diamonds and feathers.

All news was announced in the pouf, they were filled with wire hair, tied with ribbons and greased with creams of different flavors, but the lady who had this amazing and beautiful work I had to go to kneel in his carriage, now to access your boxes at the opera had to bend down and even lost their balance, imagine almost two feet over the head, the odyssey to get off the ground, will have been an ordeal, and in any case walk with a crinoline, or paniers guardainfante also exaggerated and on each side of the waist was deployed one meter pussycat, the volume and the hype was on the agenda in the eighteenth century fashion. I guess every night fall courtesans rendered in bed after taking all this frame of fabric and hair on their bodies.
Dresses eighteenth century

Shoes Corsets



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Now the funny thing is the situation of the lice, the ladies of the beginning of the eighteenth century, had very short hair and small white laughters and was cleaner, as there was much in the habit of washing your hair and thus avoided the bugs are so uncomfortable and embarrassed any noble lady, having to resist the urge to scratching. With the pouf is very clever design, and was a small box of material that the lady could be afford to pay, in some cases was of ivory and wood, the thing is that the box contained a substance that attracted these undesirables and were trapped inside to death and now this box as all the eighteenth century, contained a perfume to conceal their true function well.

Bounets

But like all fashion, this happened when our dear muse, Marie Antoinette had her second son, his heir, the Dauphin of France first, it reaffirms its maternity and fulfills its primary role as queen which is to give an heir to the crown and secure the seed of the house Bourbon Marie Antoinette realizes that it is uncomfortable play with their kids dressed like that, with court dress, and decided to change her wardrobe and no more pouf, no large hoops, appears Stowaway and the dress has a more natural effect, the crinoline is small and after a while disappears, using thinner fabrics and petticoats.










































Friday, September 4, 2009

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FRENCH GUYANA: THE DARK SIDE

Now that the people around me have forgotten some of my blog and I am not in Guyana, I can speak of things that did not have to worry about my mother no longer my family, "The dark side of French Guiana"

For if, in Guyana not only good things happen, there are many burglaries and robberies in the streets, and society itself is somewhat violent. Things happen that an no está acostumbrado a ver u oír. Y Saint Laurent, al ser una ciudad fronteriza, quizás se lleve la palma en cuanto a peligrosidad. Sólo el río Maroni separa Saint Laurent de Surinam, lo que hace que mucha gente cruce el río, robe, y se vuelva a Surinam. Y les interesa robar en territorio francés porque en Surinam la policía no se anda con tonterías, si echas a correr sacan la pistola, te pegan un par de tiros y se quedan tan anchos. Y quizás sea uno de los motivos por los que se puede pasear tranquilo por la noche en Paramaribo, cosa que en Saint Laurent no. Los franceses suelen ser exagerados con sus historias de peligrosidad y de llevar cuidado, y claro tu no empiezas a ver el peligro hasta que te pasa a ti, lo que no mean that the French may be exaggerated.

For if, as I landed me not once but twice, 2 times with firearms. The first time was with Joe English, we were partying at Chez Paul Neman, the coolest place Saint Laurent to leave, but unfortunately is located in the Charbonniere, crappy neighborhood of Saint Laurent. For the 2 we talking so quiet when we suddenly leave 2 guys who were hiding, a top with a machete and another short, the Joe grabs a machete and thrown to the ground in a flash and puts the knife in the neck, Joe is a cut on his hand to protect and I'll take the little one and think: what's this? Is not take anything? And suddenly flush me! and me carrying out a shotgun hidden in his coat, I say, take all my money, my mobile and even my shirt if you want. And that, I stole the phone, 25 euros and house keys, and ran, I imagine they would go to Suriname. The next day the same docked to a family going on vacation to Surinam and stole 600 euros, one of the children wore a bracelet of gold or silver and not wanting to give it to the robbers, beaten with a machete on the wrist to cut the bracelet, and the poor guy had to give him 14 points in the wrist.

The second Only once was I, returned home after leaving the Charbonniere, when I walk past a group of 4 kids, and when I had moved about 20 yards away, began to follow me. I oliéndome the calico, I began to quicken the pace, I could not run because I had a sprained knee playing basketball, so friends, seeing that accelerated the pace, ran after me and surrounded me. Do not move! Do not move! I told them again nooo! And I stole the other day and not wear anything now when I come by here. The fact is that there was an unfortunate time when I, lifting his arms and say another time no! And my cacher, to bow their heads to cache, found my hand in his face, we gave him a slap and he inadvertently pulled the sunglasses to the ground (yes, even though it was night wearing sunglasses) then became angry, I took out a gun and said, "want a bullet eh" "want a bullet" peguemos you want a shot, "I told them no, because although I've never been shot, not an experience I attract too. So I continued searching and stole the only thing she was wearing, the house keys to my key ring bottle opener with the flag of Guyana which was purchased in Georgetown. Surprisingly keychain in hand, ran hastily (I imagine fearing my wrath ...)

And what annoyed me this second time I landed, is that by taking the keys, I had no way to enter the house, but fortunately had left a window open , and I could get from a neighbor's house walking on the ledge. For the second time I had to change the locks of the house.

Anyway, I was lucky and nothing happened to me more in my 8 months Guyanese. But if things happen, a student of 12 years the institute where he worked, was killed after being shot in the face. My housemates were killed someone stabbed in the main square during Carnival Cayenne, a man walked with a rifle in my school and wanted to kill a worker. One student was raped in the time I was there. And there are many more stories of rape, burglary, robbery with violence ...

The people there have a very particular way of settling their differences, as I told a friend Suriname "here does not waste time fighting, here we shoot" So you have to take care not to go to certain places at certain times and be vigilant, if you take care and still rob you, then do not play the hero, is that people are trigger happy.

But neither should we live obsessed with insecurity, Guayana remains a wonderful place with its pros and cons, and believe me when I say that there are more pros than cons.