Pretty nearly every woman wore a corset from about 1680 to about 1912. They came in all price points, and could also be bought second-hand if you were really poor. However in the mid-nineteen-teens fashions began to change, becoming looser and more unconstructed. Paul Poiret is the fashion designer credited with inventing the brassiere and "liberating women from corsets". Maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but it was certainly true that some women, mostly young and slender women, stopped wearing them. So in the nineteen-teens your girl who refuses to to wear them is just being fashion-forward. Maybe a bit scandalous, but not indecent or unacceptable in society. Some women had experimented with not wearing corsets as early as the mid 1800's, the so-called "rational dress movement". These women rejected all the fashionable elements of women's clothing including hoops, bustles, and multiple layers of petticoats. They were mostly ridiculed and most of them gave it up. Some did not, and they were regarded as a bit eccentric. But by 1912 it would have been more acceptable, because it was by then cutting-edge Paris fashion to stop wearing your corset.

Sure you can sell your artwork on the streets of Paris. in a very few minutes you will receive a visit from an official wearing a very elegant uniform and he will ask for your street worker's license. He may also inquire why you as a Canadian are working in Paris when the law is quite clear that only those from European Union countries can work or earn money anywhere in France and that you as a tourist can only stay 90 days in the country and do no work. Then he might even be nice enough to take you to a place where you will receive a nice French meal, and provided with a small cot, before you are escorted to the airport for your return flight to Ontario. I stand corrected and in no way do I want to insult the fine city of Whitby, Ontario. i believe Whitby is just about the fastest growing city in Canada. Ireland of course is a member state of the European Union and you will be permitted to work peacefully in Paris. I believe you will need some kind of a license and you would be assigned a specific zone. France has an excellent embassy in Ottawa and I am sure they can give you complete information. However you will not get that free French gourmet dinner. http;//www.ambafrance-ca.org/

Such a scene would need to grow from your characters and who they are. Is he yet another Parisian boy, cynically taking advantage of the boat loads of wide-eyed teenage girls who regularly troop into the city to offer up their virginity or hearts to anyone who seems marginally exotic? By age twenty, he's likely had a dozen such dalliances with naive young girls who see him as romantic, rather than Pierre the Pimple who they grew up with. When a twenty year old dates someone four years younger than them, they're always aware of the difference in ages, in experience. If this is who he is, then have him hit upon her in a standard way, such as performing a minor heroism, lending his experience to helping her find her hotel or the museum where she is supposed to meet up with her tour group. Perhaps, you have him trolling the over-priced sidewalk cafes of Montmarte, introducing himself in a thick accent. Is he some idealized romance novel french guy? The type who's all serious and would never think of dating a high school girl, till he realizes how special she is? Well then what is his background? Does he have a job? Is he at university? What is his back story? Where was he going on the day that they met?

€100 per day should be fine if you are careful. I recommend if you are going to do a lot of sightseeing to get the Paris visite pass. This gives you unlimited travel in the Inner Paris area, and includes, buses, trams, the RER metro (known as Metropolitain and VERY handy) and cable cart to montmartre etc. It's €33,70 for 5 days Zones 1-3 which is a small amount and will cover most of the sights in the main Paris area. http://www.ratp.fr/en/ratp/r_61634/paris-visite/ It will be good for you to memorise the lines too (for the Métro) http://www.parismetro.com/ And look for the Quick chain. http://www.quick.fr/ The burgers there are a lot better than McDonalds ones! (no offense) I also do NOT recomment drinking out in bars very much. You are talking around €10 per glass of beer. It is much cheaper to just buy your own. The best supermarket in my opinion is Auchan, they are very reasonably priced. http://www.auchan.fr/ If you are going to visit the Sacre Coeur, be very careful of people who approach you and ask you to put your finger in any device, or sell you a bracelet. They are con artists, and will try and extort money out of you to release it (no joke!). Walk on and ignore them http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/Tourist_Traps-Paris-MontmartreSacre_Coeur-BR-4.html If you are going to climb the eiffel tower, be prepared to Que for HOURS! literally about 2 hours just to get in. Sorry to be a dampner, but that's how long it will take. The 'Tour Montparnasse' is higher than the Eiffel Tower and is a lot quicker to get up (about 10 seconds to go up 59 floors in a high powered elevator) You will find lots of souvenir shops, they are all very reasonably priced. You will love it and want to go back. Paris is like an addiction, you can never get enough of it. I also advise you wear very comfortable shoes, as walking around a lot can leave you with very sore feet. Padded trainers (sneakers) with thin socks are advised. Have a good journey (bonne vacances!)

First of all, many black men shave their hair off either because it's easier or because they look good that way. In contrast, many white men don't look as good with shaved heads and sometimes instead of shaving it all off they sit around with huge bald patches all over their heads...which looks horrible. And who says most black men shave off all their hair? What about Kanye West, Dwyane Wade, Flex Washington, Marlon Wayans, Chris Brown, Denzel Washington, Wyclef Jean, Jaleel White, Eddie Griffin, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, Usher, Ginuwine, Keston Karter, Raymond Felton, JR Smith, Kevin Durant, etc? Also there are lots of black men who wear their hair in long natural braids. As for black women, most of them wear perms or wear their hair naturally. A perm does not make your hair longer, it just straightens it. Black people's hair is tightly curled so sometimes it might look shorter but often it is actually just coiled...like a spring. All a perm does is straighten it. It doesn't add to its' length. Some black women also add curls to their hair so that it looks shorter but is still long. Where is your proof that most of them wear weaves? Just because they have long hair? SOME black women don't have long hair because they aren't taught to care for it. Most store owners also sell products that have ingredients that are damaging to black hair while those same ingredients promote growth in white hair. In addition, hair dressers aren't taught to treat black women's hair and so some of their techniques and products singe and destroy black women's hair or causes it to break off. As a result, by the time some black women reach adulthood, their hair is shorter. Also some of them choose to cut their hair shorter because longer hair takes time to care for...time they don't have especially since the society lacks institutions, products and general information about black hair. Therefore they would have to search hard and long to find ways of keeping their hair well cared for and they'd have to spend time doing it as well. However MOST do not have short hair. My sister has long hair down her back and she doesn't wear perms or weaves. Here are some other black women who don't either: 1. Atim Birungi http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9juipbTNi1r17r2zo1_500.jpg 2. Nerissa Irving http://officialpsds.com/images/thumbs/Nerissa-Irving-psd44727.png https://satanforce.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nerris_irvin_modelphotos1.jpg 4. Lauryn Hill (had long hair and chose to cut it shorter) http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/22809/Lauryn+Hill.jpg http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/imager/lauryn-hill/b/original/2764554/e34f/LaurynHill1.jpg 5. Genevieve Nnaji http://evasitoe.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/genevieven1.jpg 6. http://connectnigeria.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Black-Model-with-Natural-Hair.jpg 7. http://www.allblackwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Afro-mohekan.png 8. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCEEiWqLMok/Tvxh7bPzSJI/AAAAAAAAAx8/KC0ydSL3zyA/s1600/AfroBeauty.jpg 9. http://www.hairstylesdesign.com/img/hairstyles/cover/5447.jpg Also statistics show that more white women wear weaves than black women. Many of these women wear it to increase the length of their hair or to give it the illusion of fullness / body. They also wear wigs to cover their hair if it's thinning or sparse as well. You might not think so, but a lot of weaves can be made to look like any texture of hair for the right price. How do you think Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears can go from very short hair one day to hair all the way down their back the next?

Being French , I don't understand this big love or romantic image of France. Yes sure, we have the Tour Eiffel and macaroons. Its only an illusion, till you get here lol. Nevertheless, they are lots of good things! Crepes were invented in France, thin large pancakes, a must try if you go to Brittany. Wine is very good, but thats well known. In terms of things to do, it really depends on where you go and when. Paris and Lyon have many beautiful museums and shows going on. Shopping is good, it you like the European style ;) BTW, if you plan to visit the country side, I would recommend staying in an hote. Hote is a chateau (castle) or mansion and you can rent rooms for a good price, the setting will be beautiful, then you will really feel in France.

If your are not going to cook, i'd say at least 10-15 euros per day for food. The sales tax is 19.6% but you won't have to worry about adding it, because all taxes are included in the shown price. For a month, depending on where you are planning to eat, i'd say you'll need at least 200 euros for food, that is if you cook. If you are planning on eating out, an average restaurant is around 15-20 euros a meal with beverage, and fast foods around 5-9 euros. When i go i usually bring around 600-1000 euros, but i don't cook all the time and i go out a lot. So it really depends on what you are planning to do. Hope this helps

We usually go on vacation a couple of times a year but never by ourselves w/o kids. May take a weekend off somewhere once the kids are old enough to watch after themselves (and hopefully not trash the house while we are gone). My parents live close to us but my mom's health isn't good enough to watch the kids for more than an afternoon or evening. Went on a Disney Cruise with some friends last Thanksgiving on a special deal through Costco Travel (Disney Cruise at Carnival prices) and that gave us the opportunity to be free range parents for a week. Kids enjoyed going to the ship's movie theater, the kid's club room and the sport area (ping pong, soccer, basketball, etc) by themselves or with friends while we had the chance to go to the spa, eat a quiet meal, "relax" in our room ;) , etc. Actually made the kids more independent. Bucket List: Disneyworld, Washington DC, London/Paris (been to Italy/Switz already), New Zealand/Australia.

100% scam. That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise. Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes. The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all. The payment options say it all, Western Union and paypal. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, only anonymous cash payments. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Paypal can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's paypal linked bank account. Scammers know this and will withdraw your money immediately, no money in the account means no possibility of refund for you. In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese? The UPS, TNT and DHL icons are there only to take up space, that site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere. You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information. Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.

Yes, the tube runs everyday. There are automatic machines at all the tube stations where you can buy tickets. The staff of some touristic stations speak English, otherwise, ask for help to people around, if they don't help you, either they don't understand what you're saying or they're tourists : you're coming next weekend, during the Easter school holidays, many Parisians go on holidays or at least to visit family in another city, so, you'll mostly see tourists. Also, during the weekends, most of all on Sundays, lots of people from the suburbs come to Paris and some don't know much about Paris. Shop assistants and newspapers sellers don't live in Paris and don't have a clue about directions. When you speak in English, start by saying "bonjour" then speak slowly in English, articulating each word to your best. Don't use complicated words or slang. Take a little bilingual dictionary and a plan of the streets and tube with you. There are pickpockets, most of all at the tube and at touristic places. Don't put valuables or documents in a backpack. It is easy to take the tube. Look at the plan of the tube. Each line has a colour, a number or a letter (the RER) and 2 directions, so, first of all check the direction. For example, if you're at the Louvre museum, tube station Palais Royal Musée du Louvre and that you want to go to Concorde square, it's the line 1, direction La Défense Grande Arche, get off at Concorde. You'll do many things by foot, anyway. See the links below, they explain better how to take the tube (prices are not updated) http://parisbytrain.com/tag/paris-metro/ http://m.wikihow.com/Take-the-Underground-in-Paris http://www.transilien.com/ http://www.ratp.fr/en