Genesis Adapted...

...AND THE LORD had mercy on the girl without shoes, and with his hindsight, the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man New Look store out of it; he breathed life-giving breath stylish but cheap clothes into his nostrils the store of wonder and the man began to live. 

I went to Chatelet Les Halles today, and it's a SHOPPING MALL!!!! And I came out of the underground to see NEW LOOK!!! *Angels sing* SHOES SHOES SHOES!!! And New Look shoe-sizes ACTUALLY fit me, and I love them!!! So I leaped madly inside to check it out, and it was UHHHHH-Mazing. 

Then the Lord God placed the man in the garden of Eden New Look to cultivate it and guard it spend money. 

 

So I spent a good hour there, trying on the shoes, and eventually narrowing it down to one particular shoe, but either a mushroom-colour camel/grey, or a marine-blue. BOTH SO NICE! I also considered buying them BOTH, because this was one of my most incredible by-chance finds ever, and SO unsuspected, but I realised I'd then have the problem of which colour shoe to wear when I went out.I went for the mushrooms ones because they match my nail varnish. :)

I also found a Starbucks (three in total actually, today), although it isn't nearly half as good as Nero's... I returned to New Look later on in the day, and it was beginning to resemble the floors of IKEA! It appears that the French aren't so keen on PUTTING THINGS BACK. It was a bit of a bombsite.









At The Centre Pompidou, famous for it's 'external skeleton', showing all the pipes, stairs and building structure on the outside of the building. I also found a music shop, and was so excited to see a cello (there were HUNDREDS of guitars and electrical instruments, but only ONE cello) - I miss my cello so much! I was thinking the other day how I'd love to have it here to play on...

 

I also spent a good hour walking around Chatelet to find a 'Dirt-Chic Vintage' shop recommended in Frommer's (Life-Saving) Guide to Paris - I'm actually starting to think that Frommer may be a female, as he/she knows some very good shops, and appears to speak from experience of serious shopping in Paris! Anyway, I EVENTUALLY found 'Rags and Vertige' - just as I was about to give up, I looked up and it was right beside me! I almost very nearly walked straight past it. Frommer describes it as an 'Ali-Baba's cave of retro fashion containing some of the best and cheapest selections of vintage wear that Paris has to offer, with oodles of original 1960s shift dresses for 10 Euro...' It was a pretty cool shop - I know a lot of people back in England who'd absolutely adore it!! Loads of good bargains to be found, and one or two gold-mine discoveries!!