Striped Onion Johnny Shirts – latest Paris vogue

This post was written by admin on June 23, 2010
Posted Under: Daily Paris

Three weeks back, I returned from a visit to the UK and started seeing those stereotypical ‘Onion Johnny’ blue striped tops. Initially I thought the tourists were flooding in, but then the more I ventured around Paris, the more I saw, and those wearing them were actually French. Over the past three weeks this latest vogue is gathering in momentum. I imagine it won’t be long until the beret and French cravat make a come back!

onion johnny, striped tom, paris vogue
Photo by Penningtron.

That’s just reminded me of an incident on the metro last year, when Madame Grenouille started moaning about how all the youth of the district now had ‘black berets’. I scratched my head, and retorted, ‘but I haven’t seen anybody in a black beret’. It then dawned on me that she had actually said ‘blackberries’.

Reader Comments

Haha yeah.Everybody has a blackberryoran Iphone now…I dont, but thats allright, I resist !
That’s actually quite funny to see people talking about Paris like that, like talking dos poop…I must say it was getting better though…

by the way,where did you take that photo ?

#1 
Written By Nina on June 23rd, 2010 @ 8:41 pm

Hi Nina, phew, glad I’m not the only one without all these modern gadgets. I was starting to feel like an odd sock. 🙂

Whilst I take most the photos for the blog, this one was from FlickR, by Penningtron.

#2 
Written By admin on June 24th, 2010 @ 9:15 am

hehehe… this post is hilarious. great picture.

#3 
Written By javelin on June 14th, 2011 @ 7:41 am

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