Fashion Tips : Looking Like A French Girl, Courtesy of Jessica Alba

I usually associate Jessica Alba with a very L.A. look that screams “big budget movie star”: body-hugging dresses with bare legs and high heels, party frocks piled high with amazing accessories, and expensive T-shirts with even more expensive handbags for bumming around town. But she’s spending some time in Paris this week, and very much dressing the part…check out her French girl-chic look (and the four easy tricks for scoring your own version)
While Susan’s off absorbing the  of Paris Fashion Week (bring me home some chicness–and maybe a bottle of bubbly plait?!), I’m holding down the fort here at  and admiring the view from afar. I’ve got to admit, it’s giving me a little bit of wanderlust. And seeing this photo of Jessica Alba wandering the streets of the 2nd  gave me the perfect excuse to dress like a French girl today, with a few well-placed accessories that are unmistakably Parisian. The rules to looking like a French girl go something like this:
1. Wear a knit hat. A beret may be a cliche idea of Paris, but hey, all cliches are born from somewhere, right? Besides, it will help hide the less-than-squeaky-clean hair that’s another prerequisite of the French girl uniform (two days without a wash, minimum!