FICTION

FANTACY

in FRANCE

by R.D.C.

My visit to a small French town two years ago was timed perfectly for me to see several men go on a "fashion strike". It was the most surprising episode I ever witnessed during any vacation trip so far. It started the day after I arrived, when the men of the town set up a protest against a big increase in the cost of men's shoes. As a demonstration of their disapproval, all the men in the town began buying women's shoes and wearing them.

You can imagine how shocked the women were to see men walking to work in high heels of every color in the rainbow! Even the milkmen and newsboys wore high heels on their deliveries, and the police were wearing flatties with pointed toes and satin bows on them. This went on for a number of days with much clattering on the sidewalks, but the factories and stores still wouldn't do anything about it.

Then the prices of men's socks and shirts went up. As a result there was a new demonstration and all the men of the town started buying nylons

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