Hi Beausoleil

Actually, that's quite encouraging, thank you. Perhaps the book is referring more to the Parisian woman, I don't know? My own experience of France thus far is that the women dress very well, are not stick thin but keep their weight in check and wear stylish clothes that fit and flatter. However, that said I've never lived there, just holidayed occasionally and I guess I'm seeing everything through rose tinted spectacles! Do you enjoy living there?