Liz: I am here in Bastille which is very hip neighborhood of Paris and it seems like when the corner of Café de l'Industrie because there is a Café de l'Industrie there, there is one there, there is one and then they have they off shoot which is the Lingerie Store which is part of the whole complex where I guess theoretically, if you are at the bar and you meet a guy you like and you realize it’s laundry day, you don’t have such a good underwear on. You can just go across the street and you can probably even bring him and ask him what he likes but maybe that’s a little but too obvious but it’s right there for you, it’s open until midnight, just so you know . And I don’t know what I’m wearing today. Is it T-back? Oh yes, the red, yeah, these are bad. Okay so maybe a trip for me because it’s not so good right now, I think five years old.
So you were the innovator, you are the idea behind the store. How did you get the idea of bar, alcohol, men, women, lingerie, how did you come up with this?
Female: It’s the logical conclusion.
Liz: It all sound so sophisticated and glamorous in French.
Female: When customers at the café get their bill, it says they should go across to the boutique in order for the pleasure to continue.
Liz: Often they don’t know each other very well.
Female: When they have known each other awhile, they don’t buy the sexy things.
Liz: The longer they know each other, the less sexy the lingerie they buy for the women. I’m going around the world just to get the breasts. Does a man ever come in with his wife?
Female: No.
Liz: There is a danger that if a women does not keep up her appearances and does not make herself look good, the man will go other go else where.
Female: Yes.
Liz: She’ll come to this lingerie store with another woman.
Female: Of course, sure.
Liz: Okay. And you know what you’re talking about. I have a feeling
I think I’m—I was thinking this situation. Oh! This is dirty I’m digging this. I’m not going to lie. It’s a little dirty and a little classy at the same time. Let me just see if it fits me.
I don’t know it’s in French. I have not—really big breasted but it’s still little small for me.
So women come her late at night?
Female: Oui.
Liz: And they buy lingerie?
Female: Oui.
Liz: Are they often drunk when they come here and buy lingerie?
Female: No.
Liz: Do they come late at night? Are they often here with men?
Female: Lots of couples come.
Liz: Did these couples sometimes not know each other very well?
Female: I think so.
Liz: Yeah.
Female: And I think it’s the illegitimate girlfriend.
Liz: Here we got with the cheating thing again. It’s common theme. Okay, how can you tell that this women is not the wife but the girlfriend? How can you tell besides maybe another wedding ring but how can you tell?
Female: Because you often see the same man with a different woman.
Liz: I don’t like that, again, I don’t like that— No! But it sounds bad. Okay, so let’s say I meet a man tonight, much later in the evening, is there something that most—that most popular thing that women choose? Not that I want to be like everyone else but is there something that seems to really be successful with the men?
Female: For you?
Liz: Yes, for me.
Female: Just a second here, I know something—
Liz: Oh! Kind of little French maid outfit?! Is that a little black and white like can I clean, can I dust your furniture kind of outfit? Is that what you’re saying? Hello, I’m dusting the curtain. Okay, well I would—I should try this on then.
I am not going to be, there is no way are you going, it is nothing, it’s never going to happen.
Maybe the top.
I would try on that under jeans and my shirt. The layering look is in, everything looks good under jeans now. Honey! Hello; hello, I feel very abused right now. I feel really taking advantage now.
Male: I don’t know but just keep your head out, say anything to the camera and then say, ‘right guys you ready to see it?’ And then open up the curtains. Liz, come on. Liz.
Liz: I can’t. Okay, how does it look? There are carefully placed sequence where my hands are but I don’t really want to trust them. Okay, so what do you think, do you think I’m going to get lucky tonight?
Female: —jean.
Liz: You want me to take off my jeans? Oh I don’t think so. Really? Not everything goes well with jeans? Okay. All right well that is a thought for maybe later. Okay, I’m going to change. Thank you.
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