Coco Chanel's Out of Date Advice

Throw It Away Now

Yes it's true!  She's dated.

"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all".

Advice to hand down to a daughter or a granddaughter?  I hope not!

"Dress like you're going to meet your worst enemy today".

Perhaps Mademoiselle may have written that when she was holed up at the Ritz in Paris with Nazi officers?

"A woman with good shoes is never ugly". 

Forgive Little Missy but What in the Hell does That mean?

"A girl should be only two things: who she is and what she wants".

God forbid she would ever think of anyone else!

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous".

For those of you old enough to remember, Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine essentially had some of the most famous writers of the day re-writing this drivel, including Norah Ephron.  Gone with the wind!  It's too ridiculous to contemplate.

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future".

I guess it worked for selling Chanel No. 5 but who's buying into that myth now?

And last but not least because I think my beloved readers are getting the idea:

"If you're mad, add some lipstick and attack".

Utter rubbish!

Coco, your days of "chic advice" are over.  Little Missy never quoted you to her daughter and can't imagine doing so now.  My granddaughter would simply look perplexed, and ask why the lady (Coco) was so angry and why she wanted to play those games with lipstick and shoes.  This isn't 1910.  Little Missy says please stop quoting Chanel, stop the memes and the Pinterest boards about her "pearls of wisdom". Collect the costume pearls she created -- they actually have value and are skyrocketing every day.  Lay to rest the things she had to say and do to get where she got. It's a brave new world, women! 

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