Bonjour tout le monde and welcome to Musings of a Fox. My
name is Gabrielle and this is my channel.
I have a channel this is very exciting
and terrifying. But I'm giving it my all
and I hope you guys like what you see. I
have some really exciting videos coming up that
have me really motivated to get
going and yeah well we'll see what
happens right? *Paris Jazz Lookbook music* I was recently fortunate enough
to spend a little over a week in France
with my husband Joel and it was a really
eye-opening experience
in terms of body positivity and what I
thought that meant not just as a global idea
but to me personally
so when getting ready for France my
primary concern at first was not looking
like a tourist because unfortunately
friends have a huge sec robbery
pickpocketing problem with turrets so I
thought okay well my husband being a
dual French American season and having
spoken French since he was a little boy
and me having so going to learned it
since I was in eighth grade so about age
13 all the way through majoring in in
college we both are fluent so we have
that to kind of protect us where worship
works cases maybe we came off like
excess rather than tourists who or had
their nose kind of stuck in the Geisel
so those that gave us a bit of an edge
but what was I'm more concerned about
mister Linda pickpocketing being a
plus-size girl in the fashion capital of
the world where when you look at French
models and the French aesthetic its
Jennings and like the Audrey Hepburn
style kind of woman not me
dad is not my body types and I was still
in my own head about it
and so I was like okay you know what if
I'm gonna have to be plus-size in Paris
I'm going to stand out
and these bold and beautiful as I feel
I'm going to wear exactly what I want to
wear as well put together as I can so at
least be if I'm going to be a big girl
I'm going to be a fashionable killing it
big girl so for our first full day my
husband took me to the zoo and the
Natural History Museum and the job on
defense those are my first outfit I wore
my favorite jeans from torrid which are
the black print skinny jeans I love them
I have several pairs
I wear them two to three times a week
every week they are my favorite pants so
I paired those jeans with a black lace
top I bought several years ago on
clearance but I was like okay what
sounds more friends than black and black
lace and it was just yeah what sounds my
sentiment but because it was a bit cool
in April
I also have purchased this fantastic
motorcycle jacket from JCPenney in their
boutique collection and I loved it it
became my favorite piece any excuse I
had to wear it while we were there I
didn't it just made me feel he's a lot
of armor and also projected how I want
to feel which was like a badass and it
just is really comfy it's really
flattering
it feels really hard to find I have very
broad shoulders for a woman - really
hard to find a jacket that fits my
shoulders and it doesn't move form for
the rest of my body so I love this
jacket
but disclaimer I bought this jacket on
sale it was about fifty to sixty percent
off of its usual I think 84 dollars so I
bought it for about 40 something and
that to me is the perfect price for this
jacket that was the price I was fool
lightly hesitant about pain because I
think I bought about three to two or
three days
or we left I was kind of like do I
really want some of those money right
before we go but I did and it was
completely worth it when it rained it
was a toll lifesaver but when I paid
four dollars for it
hey no no no I would not sorry
I would go up to 60 for the showing it
but I would not really go beyond that so
if you can pick it up on sale or a
coupon or something I highly recommend
jacket otherwise I just unless 84 is
something you feel like you want to
spend on a faux leather jacket go right
ahead
otherwise wait for a sale but you get on
sale it's worth it I love it I wear it
all the time here makes me feel so good
they finish off the look I had picked up
the beautiful iridescent without
shimmers the colored glows like a glow
stick Cinderella blue scarf and no
matter what season you go to paris in'
or france anywhere you need scarf
everyone's wearing scarf in summer it's
a very light car but they have scarves
so once I own that scarf I just brought
the whole outfit together for me and it
just felt so good socially when it got a
little more luxury to kind of like
tighten up the scarf I know that really
contrast is usually with my hair but
also plate up my eyes and it was just a
little too self it I kind of think I
would wear it right now except that it's
so weather in the Bay Area for it as you
can see I had to wear socks with my
flats because we were doing a lot of
walking I don't care that didn't look
most fashionable because it was
comfortable and it's a week we blistered
so also on our first day we had our
first sign in France experience which I
was nervous about one because French
food depending upon what kind of
restaurant you go to is either really up
my alley or really not at my house so we
answer recommendations in the concierge
and he recommended it's really tiny
quiet place near the loop and our hotel
being about three blocks away it was a
perfect distance and we sat down
gorgeous pop it up right here a little
restaurant very quiet very beautiful
very romantic
um other than you is a little
overwhelming they did have an English
version which is helpful because being
fluent doesn't mean you know all the
terms for all the foods in the world but
my husband was searching for this one
kind of dried sausage and so we as an
appetizer having not eaten it having
flown for 12 hours
look adventurous so we say to get a
charcuterie platter which is a bunch of
different meats and then we ordered you
know a lot of things weren't quite our
style so we decided to just be kind of
simple and each order to burger I'm
starting to get a little nervous because
this is like a lot of food and I think
you get that you hear a lot about
European portions so we're thinking okay
maybe this platter being a little pricey
won't be that much food because maybe
like top-shelf food and you'll get just
a little bit a little taste of all the
different things
no it was the most gigantic platter of
me maybe the beach amongst more people
there is two of us but the nice thing is
the server didn't look at us like we
were ordering everything under the Sun
or like are you really going to be able
to eat at all I don't think he was
really cared of we could eat at all she
could obviously tell that we weren't
from there and we wanted to try
something and she was more than happy to
serve us and so that was really
relieving that even though we're
ordering what seems like a lot of food I
don't care the chef just to give the
compliment that we want to try more and
more of her food and the meat platter
was incredible drill sound the sausage
even looking for of course we forgot to
ask what kind it was so we still don't
know and we have no way of getting it in
the stage because we don't know what
we're looking for and then when the
burgers came we were a little too full
from the meat butter so towards the end
we just started to eat the burger and
the like delicious cheap cheese chiki
chiki chiki
hashtag cheap cheese and it was
incredible as delicious a piece a lot
like Monterey Jack but just a little bit
saltier it was melting it was delicious
he mostly spoken like the lettuce the
tomato the burger and the cheese and
kind of the bun too
there's also like a pre basket of
baguette which is so beyond you get new
face so we were full of like dried
sausage and that Gabby's burgers came
and again server and the owner didn't
care they just want to know if we were
happy and enjoying ourselves with all
that majd of em and we were and the way
they treated us made me relaxed and just
really enjoy our first night in Paris
plus the really delicious champagne
server helped me pick out help too but I
was dying to realize maybe everything I
was thinking and the media was teaching
me about France and about how bodies and
all these things things are perceived in
the u.s. might just be a u.s. issue well
we'll see how the rest of the trip
turned out for that
the day two also happens to be our
nine-year anniversary of being together
in our six-month anniversary of being
married so I went through this dress and
is a beautiful teaching mellon shear
shouldered like embroidered sheer kind
of crepe fabric and I loved it and I was
kind of like okay we did the black
yesterday today is a really important
day it's a romantic day so I'm just
going to go and stand out and be bright
and I felt amazing also just not just my
hair who doesn't want to dress too much
their hair day three we flew to Bordeaux
which is in southwestern France to spend
the weekend with Joel's grandmother and
his uncle
so I had packed one of my favorite
outfits I'd originally actually bought
last summer for my co bachelor
bachelorette weekend in northern Cal
northern Northern California up in
Nevada City and it is really fantastic
outfit that was happen spired by what a
mannequin was wearing I've been fired by
these lace shorts that I fell in love
with right now toward has them they're
playing a weird game with me because
when I first was playing out this video
I had researched what was still
available and what wasn't
and unfortunately the top that I'm
wearing on the first on the first day in
bored after day 3 is no longer available
it's beautiful like shin easy lay
shouldered little top I love it but it's
not a little bit more surprisingly the
short exact same color
I bought them in was also available
they're also available in a hot pink and
a kind of sea blue the next day the
peach and the melon hot pink were gone
so you can still I think get them in the
sea blue so I don't know but look to
them under flowy lace shorts on Tori
calm if they have them those are the
shorts they just come and sometime the
variety sometimes not but the jacket is
also available it's really cute
military esque jacket but it has a
little bit gives me a bit of a 90s
Seattle vibe this really was a super
comfy outfit to travel in on the plane
it was only about 30 snow side about an
hour long it was one of those more it
was Air France but being a little more
of a commuter plane bit more like a tiny
Southwest flight crammed there wasn't
you know there was a lot of room to
having some slightly loose flowy clothes
in a hot confined space was really great
and then we got to Bordeaux it was a lot
warmer than it was in Paris which is the
north of France my head
would like me to clarify that Paris is
in the upper third a-frame just like the
Bay Area is in like the middle of
California but were called Northern
California so frenchie over there can
just have his third of France to himself
so this is a really great outfit the
only trouble I ran into it was I had
packed too dark bras in one light bra
light bride picked is a convertible bra
from Taurus which is really beautiful
actually except this weird little like
those jewels that hang between your
boobs I don't don't know who that's for
I don't I don't know it's really cute
the problem is being a bra that can be a
strapless bra it has a lot of support in
it so when you go through security and
you're wearing a lot of metal around
your chest you're gonna get some extra
attention so I was trying to tell the
nice French version of the TSA that
I was fairly certain it was going to be
my bra because all I else had on was
those flats
the shorts my underwear my bra and this
light shirt I really had two other metal
except maybe the piercings in my ear and
my rings on my finger but I couldn't
remember the word for bra so I told her
I thought it was my underwear which is a
very strange thing to tell somebody they
think your underwear set off to
melchester luckily I got looks a very a
very nice pat down there's my first ever
major pat-down but she's very sweet
it wasn't the horror stories you hear
about in the u.s. she was very conscious
of the fact that she had to touch my
person and she was not rude about she
was very sweet and once she got to my
bra like I said the truth of it she
medium very light so she could feel all
of the support and all of the bits in
this broad she was like yeah it's your
bra so heads up if you're traveling
trying to wear strapless you can avoid
it try and wear a bra with the least
minimal underwire in bits unless you
would like to make acquaintances with a
TSA agent
so after we had a nice little lunch with
George and Mary we went back to our
amazing little I believe 17th 18th
century hotel and we have this little
terrace to ourselves which is where
you're going to see a lot of photos in
the footage over the next two days
because it was gorgeous
how could I resist taking out really
bigs and photos in that
so that so we switched and change
clothes and I change into a rose gold
skirts and surprisingly still available
in clearance on tor.com
hilariously I bought it in clearance
several months ago so I'm very happy
that like I can tell you guys about that
beautiful rose gold foiled skirt with it
I wore a simple camisole to Lane Bryant
their lace edge camisole and then of
course my motorcycle dahhh
and I just felt gorgeous and beautiful
and very metropolitan and it was even
though it's a simple dinner at Joel's
grandmother's house it I felt like I
said in I felt right she loved it mostly
she's obsessed with the colors of my
hair I just really wanted to dress up to
show Joel's grandmother who had met one
a few years ago when Jill and I were
just dating I really wanted to show her
that her French grandson had picked a
woman who can put herself together well
hold herself well and thinks has a lot
of confidence in herself because Joel's
grandmother is he very well-put-together
woman she's beautiful and she's French
and she's everything a an American woman
who wants to be a French woman wants to
be fine so now that just made me feel
like I fit right in and I belonged and
that was wonderful so you're wondering -
I got curly hair abroad I actually
picked up two days before we left a
curling iron from Ulta that is dual
voltage and under $20 and it gave me
these incredible curls that lasted for
two days curl that ones no hairspray and
I had curls the next day as well it was
incredible I was in heaven and it
totally such as feel because I have
another curling iron that is definitely
not you want under $20 and but
unfortunately you take bad abroad you
have to buy a converter and then adapter
and it was just going to be a headache
and that's give me $30 plus the gap all
those parts so I was like okay can I
find a dual voltage current
that isn't going to break the bank and I
found one I think I got it for about 18
dollars total feel totally worth it much
encouraged so too were traveling abroad
who like me need a hair tool when you
want to dress up so for our first and
only full day in Bordeaux I wanted
something that I felt was going to go
from day to night so I went back to my
trusty handy-dandy
black grande skinny jeans from torrid I
told you I love these things
I took two separate pairs with me and
actually over the course because I also
wore them on a half day after we landed
but I was in no condition to take photos
of myself
and I wore them again when we went back
to Paris for a half day where we explore
the methane and all the medieval
buildings inside of there I wore them
again so I warden told us four times and
one of them sadly took its last walks in
the streets of Paris because like I said
7 to 10 miles a day that is a lot of
sigh Robin and I already wear them two
or three times a week in an office
setting
so yeah the thighs died and one of those
pairs and I recently went in take
another pair because I love them that
much 60 bucks for a pair of pants that
you don't wear that much may not be the
best deal but they will last long 50
bucks to me for a pair of pants I wear
two to three times a week and then
lasted six to eight months is worth it
to me because I wear them so much and
every time I paradise how about two or
three pairs died since I started buying
needs about two years ago but again I've
wears them all the time and I can help
my thighs so a happy I cantilever those
pants they make me feel so wonderful I
used to be so
and he skinny jeans I didn't feel like I
had the legs and these pants do call
attention to your legs but they also
make you really your legs are wonderful
and fantastic and they're just going to
emphasize them and we have to stop
hating ourselves and not wearing a type
of clothing because we think we can't
these pants totally change their mind I
almost hate baggy flared and jeans now
because they don't show off my legs and
I love love the look of skinny jeans and
flats or changes and heels and they make
me feel so good so if you think you
can't wear something you can you will
look amazing I promise you stop hiding
as a top tip with these black jeans I
wore my favorite tank top from H&M which
is just their long camisole it's really
neutral dress up or down love it
the main beautiful piece of this outfit
it's actually a present from a friend
and I don't know where it's from she cut
out the tag it was kind of like
something she bought didn't like herself
gave to me and I love it it is
everything in a little cardigan that I
want it makes me feel witchy it's flowy
it's tight on the arms and the little
crochet bits make me feel sexy but also
professional I went to the office all
the time and get lots of compliments on
it
because it's just that nice balance of
beauty and function and I love it I
really wish I could tell you where it's
from so we're still available but I
can't she cut the tag out so we're off
to enjoy it as it Liz hit me photos so
sorry I had a really interesting moment
when Joel and I were taking the photos
in the video in the terrace in Bordeaux
we were reviewing the photos and I've
never really had Joel take photos of me
before until this trip but you know when
you're doing lunch you're going to carry
a tripod you need another person to take
your full set your full body photos for
you and those but you can a lot of trust
in my husband to get the
shots that I was looking for she took
such beautiful so does it mean the
phones I love the most especially like
from our very first day at the zoo
are the photos where I'm just smiling
because he gave me a compliment right
for each of the photo or he's just
looking at me and I feel so beautiful so
when I was reviewing the photos he took
in the terrace a well moment I was like
like why didn't you tell me my stomach
looks of that white why didn't you tell
me to like adjust my shirt and he was
kind of like I thought you're doing
these for body positivity what does body
positive about what you just said about
yourself and he was completely right I
looked beautiful the photos he's taken
but all I was focused on was my little
tummy roll that somehow in my mind undid
the rest of the composition of the photo
that my hair looks beautiful that I'm
smiling and happy and obviously loving
the moment and I'm here picking apart my
stomach and he's just like what are you
doing and it was a neat and it was so
refreshing that he did that because I
mean really I was being ridiculous
and like I said so much of the doubt
within myself I was the one who's
thinking that I wasn't going to be
received well or perceived well and it's
because I wasn't fully loving myself and
one thing I was totally right I maybe
there's photos here where my body
doesn't look perfect well there people
will always say my body is not perfect
but there's roles but that's my body and
so why am I going to have to pick every
piece of clothing to meet someone else's
version of flattering we all have got to
stop doing this to ourselves
little roles in a photo do not change
the fact that you're having an amazing
time or you're doing something important
that is not important what's important
is who you're way what you're doing and
how you're feeling and a photo or a
shirt bunched in a way or grabbing your
body in certain way cannot and should
not undercut the beauty of life so for a
second wanna stay in Paris
as I take Joel
somewhere he'd never been before which
is the Chateau at Versailles
it was a mixed bag of the day I had been
to Paris twice before same time almost
the exact same week this is the third
time I've been but had been ten years
since I had last been there but both
times it was beautiful sunny days in
April not so much this trip we had when
we got back from Bordeaux in a sunny
beautifulness of Bordeaux we were met by
David rain
I remember merde for rain I was prepared
for cool I was not prepared for rain so
for this amazing day in Versailles I
brought this beautiful dress I picked up
from pants girl clothing at their yard
sale because there's that there yard
sale those clothes are usually
discontinued style or just community
colorways so I actually don't know what
cut this dress is it looks like
something they don't make anymore it
looks like it is for the marshalling
pick collection I will have a details
down below if I can find them also on
the blog I don't know but I highly
recommend pin-up girl clothing for all
body types if you like retro vintage
style clothes but they also have a nice
fine line where this dress doesn't
necessarily scream vintage depend on how
you style it but to me it just nice it
fits tightly around the bust and the
waist and then flares out
however this dress is not really meant
for 40 degrees in the pouring rain like
way I take in my faux leather motorcycle
jacket and I had no umbrella and husband
done an umbrella he was wearing a nice
thick fleecy hoodie so he was very sweet
and would like store his body heat and
give me a cuddle to keep me warm because
we spent about almost two hours in the
pouring rain with an umbrella
waiting to get in and but as you can see
in the photos after we were done with
the tour inside the castle the Sun came
out for the guards
and what a version my hair was soaking
wet it's like you have enough fun but
just the sunshine being in a beautiful
place being with the man of my dreams I
give you these photos that he actually
took of me so watch out for the weather
report I tried my best to plan never get
it really see the kind of rain we
experienced but Indiana it was still a
beautiful day I really enjoyed this
dress I love wearing it whenever I need
a semi dressy occasion it's just I just
wish I knew what it was so I can tell
you but otherwise total whole plug put a
girl because they're amazing
and their clothes just make me feel
fantastic so the last day in Paris is
actually my favorite outfit that I wore
this outfit actually took the most
courage for me because I'll start when
you're a bigger girl the last thing you
want to do is make your butt stomach
area bigger and that's kind of what
jewels skirts do is they really poop out
there and so I saw this outfit possibly
the same mailer as that peachy melon
dress so it was their tulle skirt paired
with the I'm a keeper v-neck t-shirt it
looked beautiful on the model and I
really loved the way it looked on me but
it was hard to go out and be like this
outfit called attention to you keeping
in line with the you have to wear a
scarf over with every outfit I found
this beautiful super soft silky
delicious
start in the galleries of Lafayette the
major department store have the
Nordstrom Neiman Marcus II goodness of
France and so when I thought I was good
together and I was leaving those I was
like this outfit screams look at me
which can be a hard thing to do I have
you know really bright colored hair and
switching from having brown hair for so
long to having bright hair I wasn't used
to or expecting how much attention hair
would get me so when you pair bright
purple pink peach hair with a peach
tulle skirt or a blush tulle skirt and a
blush scarf you're gonna get a lot of
looks no matter what your body type is
so this outfit really calls for me to be
feeling myself to be loving myself and I
totally was and you can see by this
little shoot that my husband took for me
in the parish a cemetery surrounded by
great stone because I'm a weirdo I was
really just feeling the light ends of
everything and just I love you photos I
love this outfit but I think is the
first time in France that I felt looked
at and I don't think it had to do with
my side and head due to the fact this
one else in the Bart the BART oh
everyone else on the Metro was in dark
kind of you know bundled up clothing cuz
we've had several days
the brain in high air I am in this tulle
skirt
did have my motorcycle jacket with me so
I wasn't totally breathing but as the
Canadians we met at the cemetery it were
like aren't too cold even the Bay Area
it's got to get pretty cold for me to
feel cold because I'm going to wear a
skirt as often as I can so it was a
little cool it was this outfit made them
better for like more may than April but
I felt beautiful I loved it I felt so
Parisian I felt like I belonged it was
just it's just my favorite favorite
outfit um I'll both the skirt and the
top are still available on Torres so if
you want to feel like a fairy goddess I
highly recommend this outfit I hover the
jib I learned I cared more about how my
body looked and the people around me I
got tons of compliments on out that they
wore I got compliments on my hair
because colored hair is just not quite
as popular or just as done over there so
Evelyn was just marveling at having you
know peach colored hair I got
compliments on my accent and how well I
spoke never did I get side eye for my
body never did I get anything never day
when maybe feel like I was taking it too
much room on the metro it was all in my
head and that's the most important thing
if you want to go somewhere as long as
you love yourself people are going to
love you back
and if you're worried about how you're
being besieged you're not enjoying your
moment and so all I can leave my
experience is once I let go worrying
what people thought of my body I had an
even better time you know I enjoyed my
boat even when I was a little concerned
because I was still dressing up in ways
that made me feel beautiful and so I
made sure I didn't hide myself and that
was my promise myself but even if I felt
out of place I was still going to be
wearing and presenting myself as
beautiful as I know I am and so I don't
really want to leave you guys with that
that you're going to go in place and
you've heard things people tell you you
can't look a certain way or dress a
certain way ignore it we saw so many
tourists we
so women who were way bigger than me
away smaller than me and no one cared
because everyone was enjoying this
beautiful city and the history and the
food and the wine and it's just an
amazing place if you want to travel
travel don't let your perceptions of
your body hold you back so great big
world out there and you're going to find
so many beautiful things and you're
going to be a beautiful thing in that
place to just remember enjoy see the
world I don't know we're going to start
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there's lots of photos a bit of ambience
photos as well as outfit photos and I
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impressing lucky bad gotta stay on my
beat fans in the room my chair is really
wet you slice around like half power
hopefully that works for today because I
really don't want to hug them up to full
blast yet until much cooler good about
to bust out the window to make it better
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