Marie-Madeleine borrowed one of Nelly’s couture outfits and had her hair cut and styled. Like many of her female compatriots, she believed that looking fashionable was one way of thumbing her nose at the Germans. “Fashion was, for the French…anything but trivial,” noted the historian Anne Sebba. “Many French women…remained as fashion-concious as possible during the war in order to retain their pride, boost morale, and remain true to themselves, because fashion expressed their identity.”
