I got such a kick out of it. And it was the cheapest item in the store. I walked out of an ultra-luxury store the other day with… a headband. Better: silk headband. Even better: a thick, quilted floral silk headband between Valérie Lemercier in “Les Visiteurs” and Kate Middleton on a visit. I don’t think I’ve committed such an offense since I bought the high boots (still in the closet)…
9:00 a.m. Writing Conference
(I’m lying, it’s 10 o’clock, but hey…). The girls’ faces when they saw me with a headband… on my head! Style-wise, I’m more in the “street wear” category than the “quiet luxury” category, how would I put it.
9:02 a.m
Instantly, Ilaria, the fashion watchdog in the newsroom, who has seen the others, decides: “More like the return of the big hair bow, but hey, the headband, there it goes.” .Ugh.
9:03 am
It’s true that we see them everywhere at the moment: Miu Miu, Hermès, down by my house…
9:05 a.m
My boss, aware of the problem, i.e. the difference between my round 40 years (ahem…) and this baby-smelling headband, asked me to do the “I tested” paper.
9:07 a.m
Dr. Aga chokes as she holds out the vaporetto. Why can’t she do it? She saw headbands, and real ones at that! People who go to meetings, who dance together to rock, who shovel shovels in Beigbeder…
9:08 a.m
“Because the headband looks toned on you.” » Silence in the room.
9:09 a.m
To think that Dr. Aga would be a little bourgeois on the part of a dachshund is to ignore her roots in Saint-Tropez, which surface in good times (the emotions of this canteen, where she announced to us in great sadness and in an aperitif -pareo look: “He ate I am all my tanned capital.”).
10:01 am
Editorial conference, I still have a headache, already? It’s not because of what’s going on there… actually I’m not used to having a vise on my temples, I’m trying to loosen the grip.
10:15 a.m
Sideways glances at my headband, worn like a tiara to ease the headache that’s coming, people look at me, stare at me.
11:00 a.m
My headband passes from hand to hand, everyone tries it on, looks at each other, laughs. Better than a joint?
11:30 am
At the end of the conference, Dr. Aga asks me, why don’t I do the “I tested the trend, I’m walking down the street in panties” scene on Kendall Jenner instead? Yes, why ?
12:50 p.m
Late, metro 3, Réaumur-Sébastopol transfer, less I suppose, girls around me have bobby pins in their hair.
1 in the afternoon.
Lunch with my mother who thinks it’s “wonderful”. Ouch. It’s a long story between my mother and my hair… frustration. She’s a generation tucked in, I’m out of bed. Every time we meet: he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear (punch me the day I do that!).
1:15 p.m
The spell continues to work… “And then it cleans your forehead, highlights your eyes… frankly, makes you look twenty years younger. »
1:15 p.m
My other half, who met me this morning, is not quite of this opinion.
1:15 p.m
My significant other thinks I’m over twenty years old.
1:30 p.m
My mother is inexhaustible: “And then it’s a change from your big shoes, from all the shapeless things you wear, honestly, these are your best years, you know! »
14:00
Back at the office (I’m lying, it’s more like 3pm, but hey…), sticking to my article. Headlock. I will write it tomorrow.
18:00
In the mirror in the elevator, I change the headband, a little forward, hair pulled back in a line, like a little girl, especially not “the banana”!
7:30 p.m
I ask my teenage son what he thinks. At this point, he’s between two expressions: “Square” and “It’s OK.” Square = good, that’s fine = nothing. Answer: “That’s fine. »
8:02 p.m
On reflection, it makes him think of “the lady in the movie we saw recently with the naked guys”.
8:03 p.m
Uh? A lady with hairy guys? And in a headband? I don’t see…
21:00
Friends evening, I put on a headband and clogs (with panties in between).
21:00
My friend Juju, who is the host, thinks I’m putting a bit of weight on the mullet. My friend DD asks me where I bought it. She’s seen some great ones at Claire’s, Double J, Maria de la Orden…
21:29
The guy at the next table is really excited, he tells me he didn’t see it from Sophie Garbois in 2de B, he asks me if it was me who chose it or if I was restricted, where did I get it? idea if he can touch if it hurts?
9:31 p.m
It’s obviously doing him good.
21:37
I feel like I have a secret superpower. Wonder Woman? Headband, new lasso?
10:52 p.m
A little drop in speed when you realize that the film with the naked guys is “La Reine Margot”, seen on Arte, and the lady Virna Lisi who plays Catherine de Medici…
11:55 p.m
So Dr. Aga was right, as he often is. Going out in (horse?) breeches may be easier after all.