FreeStyle: The Ritz Experience_ItsWhatYouWear

Last time in Paris or actually every time I travel and got time on my hands I like checking out hotels. Especially having been to a city before for Paris this is like about five times starting with an exchange in a sister city on the outskirts. My host family was wonderful Joelle, my french friend would take my to Paris everyday! But her German was much much better than my french which only picks up fluency with a sip of Rose if you know what I mean.

 Anyways, so with the sightseeing pretty much done I not only like hotels in Frankfurt but anywhere in the world. And the Ritz is one of them because of Coco Chanel having spent the later part of her life in an upstairs "apartement".So and now here is the kicker: the first time I went there: what do you think happened? Wearing just comfortable sandals and jeans? Exactly, I got turned away right after entering thru the revolving door. By a young emlpoyee in a black, knee-length costume. Having learnt from this experience and because I welcmed the  challenge  I returend a few das later -

And nobody bothered to look at me. Well, Pretty sure it was the attitude supported by what I was wearing which made me feel good. Style lesson learnt: Dress for the occasion. What my acting teacher used to tell us: the way you dress (costume) makes the attitude and the character. You would call this superficial? So be it. It still works.

Totally undisturbed I was able to take a stroll down the corridors all the way to the Rue Du Cambon exit (that famous one where Princess Diana left at night) and check out the Hemingway bar where men need to put on a tie. Its very intimate, small-and there is a typewriter. It gave me goose bumbs just to think of Hemingway and Fitzgerald having been in the same place. Also, I had the pleasure of watching an Eastern European family with their ill mannered children climbing over sofas and those exquisit armchairs without anyone calling them out. So tell me, do you think money makes the world go round and you dont need manners?