She spent a few sweet and heavenly hours among students and midinettes at Bullier's, a Paris nightspot. |
The little midinettes, who get their name from their habit of promenading the streets at the midday hour, are the youngest of the workers in the dressmaking establishments. |
A photo from the 1950s shows Lucien Lelong meeting and greeting his midinettes. |
The symbolic language of Saint Catherine's day, as celebrated by the Parisian midinettes, had its origins in the festive calendar of rural France. |