Seeing Stripes: Stripey Decor that Will Make You As Cool As A French Girl

The Breton Stripe: It epitomizes French-girl cool. It’s laid-back looking, unfussy, but still tidy and put-together. Just like us. JK that is not true at all. But we want it to be. Oh, how we want it to be. But just because we don’t have perfectly tousled hair and legs for days and the ability to crush chocolate croissants without ever getting fat or getting chocolate all over our face or ruining our pretty silk pants with butter-finger-stains, that DOESN’T mean we can’t get in on the French cool girl thing. So, this Memorial Day weekend, we’re seeing stripes on and around our tables. They’ll make us look chic and laid back (without those horizontal stripes making us look wide) and the lobster’s we’ll serve on these dishes and tablecloths will fit right into the color scheme. What? You don’t match your meal to your decor? Sacré bleu! 

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Products (Left to Right): Caskata Stripped Blue Plate | Red Stripped Table Runner | Red Jar | Blue Jar | Red and White Stripped Tablecloth | Kate Spade Blue and White Tableware Set | Serena and Lily Stripped Floor Pillow | Breton Spread Knives | Blue and White Strip Fairfax Dinner Plates | Alexandra Von Furstenberg Flower Vase | Serena and Lily woven red table mat

 

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Image Credits: Reading on The Beach – Source Unknown | California beach graphics in Harper’s Bazaar, 1957, by John Engstead | Cliffside cafe in Gourdon, France, by Mark and Judy Coran | Blue and White Bathing Suite by Pool – Photo by Solid and Stripped Swimwear | Stripes and bougainvillea at the Patmos house of interior designer John Stefanidis, by Fritz von der Schulenburg | Beach and Sailboat Photo by Slim Aarons | Naomi Campbell by Mario Testino, 1994 | Grace Kelly in Jamaica by Howell Conant | Brigitte Bardot, Saint-Tropez, 1958 | Anthony Quinn and Anna Karina by Eve Arnold, 1967

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