A Letter to Melbourne.

Dear Melbourne,

I love you, I really do.
You continue to excite me with a new boutique in a hidden alleyway or great coffee that floods the city.
I even love that you keep our relationship spontaneous with four seasons in one day.
Aside from what is one of the worst rail systems in the western world, I can't fault you.

But Melbourne my darling, have you ever been to Paris?
I thought people dressed well in Melbourne. Sure there was the odd 300+ disaster outfits each day, but I just figured that was the same in every city and chose to look passed them to see the impeccably well-dressed and fashionable Melburnians going about their day to day lives.

Then I came to Paris.
Now I don't like to judge past purely on looks (you have a much better personality Melbs!) but here, I'm yet to see a true Parisian look drab. Everyone is fab and everyone knows it.

There's ballet flats to sky-high heels, and sheer blouses paired under a classic blazer without a crease to be seen. I've witnessed not a hair out of place, and not a mistake to be seen.

And that's just the women. Women are always likely to get it right regardless of their nationality.*

But the men, oh the men. One of the reason people find French gentlemen so attractive, in my humble opinion, is that they dress so well yet make it seemingly effortless.
You know when you're walking through Melbourne and a man walks past looking like he just stepped out of The Sartorialist - and you can't help but stop and stare at his brilliant style? Well if I stopped, even just for half a second, for every well-dressed Parisian man, I would never move.

So dear Melbourne, I don't mean to just rub this in your face.
I would just like you to consider relighting the fashion flame with those that have fallen short of their fashion ways and so on my return, I feel like I've never left Paris**.

All my love
x

*I know this is vastly untrue, it just fitted better in my story so please pretend.
**Feel free to leave the dog poo and clouds of cigarette smoke in cafes behind.***
***Also very exaggerated, I haven't come across either of these problems any more than elsewhere in the world yet.