{"id":10027,"date":"2021-05-07T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:21:35","slug":"chanteuse-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/chanteuse-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanteuse Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some silky rayon to counteract all the expedition cloth, this shirt was offered Fall\/Holiday ’86-’87, variously in khaki, ivory, wine, black and sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This shirt is discussed (but not named) by Patrica Ziegler in the Wild Company<\/em> memoir. “Whenever we passed through Paris, a must-stop was the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt<\/em>\u2014officially called Les Puces de Saint-Ouen<\/em> but known to everyone as Les Puces<\/em> (the Fleas). There we found a shirt of cool blue. The two patch pockets, cuffs, and collar were handstitched at the edges. It draped over my arm like fine silk. I checked the label: men\u2019s S, cotton and rayon, made in the U.S.A. Not natural, not French, but we bought it anyway. I wore it out to dinner that night with my Serengeti Skirt, feeling a bit of a traitor to my natural-fiber credo, but I was smitten. \u201cSo make it in cotton,\u201d Mel said. \u201cWon\u2019t drape the same,\u201d I answered glumly. \u201cWell, what is rayon anyway?\u201d and he looked it up. Turns out, rayon is a seminatural fiber manufactured from cellulose. That was enough to ease my conscience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the catalogue: “The woman in the fedora leaned conspiratorially across the little table. “You must remember this,” she whispered. (Actually, she said “zis.”) “A shirt is just a shirt. You put it on one arm at a time, n’est-ce-pas<\/em>? And you button it up ze front, comme ca<\/em>. But zis shirt\u2013ahhh.” She smiled her world-weary smile and trailed carmine fingertips over the silky rayon twill of her sleeve. “Zis is not only a shirt. It is a rendezvous on ze Orient Express, a Piaf song in a smoky little boite<\/em>, a border crossing at midnight…with no documents. Vous savez<\/em>?” We savvied. And thought, privately, that it’s also a shirt that makes a woman look capable of picking up the tab at Tour d’Argent. Which is just what we let her do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sage version from an Etsy listing<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pictures below from a September 2020 ebay auction<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black version courtesy Julie Higginbotham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some silky rayon to counteract all the expedition cloth, this shirt was offered Fall\/Holiday ’86-’87, variously in khaki, ivory, wine, black and sage. This shirt is discussed (but not named) by Patrica Ziegler in the Wild Company memoir. “Whenever we passed through Paris, a must-stop was the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt\u2014officially called Les […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1454],"tags":[1466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}