Feeling French. Taking the pain of chocolate with the Foreign Legion

Goodness - The pain of chocolate or as the french like to say pain au chocolat for an indulgent breakfast and yesterdays Matisse print inspired me to pick one of my dress with a french name. Let me introduce Francois. She has that risque but not revealing cut of french clothes. 

The bow on the dress at the front is detachable, I think it adds a fun, flirty dimension that makes me smile. I really love the way the little blue collar stands out on the large white peter pan collar which frames the shoulders beautifully. I carried the white buttons to the waist through to my shoes.

Fun but elegant you really can't go wrong with navy and white. I am going to team it with a white pashmina/shawl for the office so that my shoulders are covered but you can still see the contrast of the blue and white collars.

Here's to Francois and facing the torture that is the pain of chocolate :)

The song chose itself because of the chocolate indulgence, we should heed it's words "No I don't regret anything" - we say in English only regret the things you didn't do, not the things you did. I'm with the French on this - Don't regret anything. Maybe I should confess I am also with the french when it comes to knickers, coffee and champagne too!

Dress: Francois by Glamourbunny

Shoes: Schuh

Naughty face ...yum yum chocolate

You can't help but want to dance round the kitchen eating naughty but ever so nice pastries and drinking strong coffee to this, well unless you are the French Foreign Legion. I don't think they would let you have breakfast on the parade ground whilst you were singing it! They probably don't let you dance either. Edith Piaf dedicated this song the men in the French Foreign Legion when they were in Algeria and they adopted it. 

CLASS TUNE - An Anthem

Edith Piaf 

No, I don't regret anything

The French Vera Lynn

No, nothing at all

No I regret nothing ( I don't feel sorry)

Not the good things people have done for me

Nor the bad, it's all the same (equal) for me

No, nothing at all

No I regret nothing

It's paid for, wiped away, forgotten

I don't care about the past

With all my memories

I lit up the fire

My troubles, my pleasures

I don't need them anymore

Swept away my love stories

And their troubles

Swept away for good

I'll start again from zero

No, nothing at all

No I regret nothing

Not the good things people have done for me

Nor the bad, it's all the same for me

No, nothing at all

No, I regret nothing

Because my life, my joys

Today they begin with you