# Do/did French maids really dress provactively? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098 "2007-10-26T13:24:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/21 "2007-10-26T19:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I’m pretty sure these aren’t regulation [military issue](http://www.3wishes.com/military.asp) either. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but just think of the enlistment rates if they were! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/22 "2007-10-26T19:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Well, to be fair, it depends on which hospital one is admitted to. As for the military outfits, you have to admit they’d do wonders for morale. [/QUOTE] That really depends on who is wearing them. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/23 "2007-10-26T20:40:20Z")
> [@](#): > > And what’s this talk about nurses not dressing like that, either? I mean really. Why do you hate America? Yes, think [patriotic](http://www.3wishes.com/images/sexypatriot-n.jpg). I must be in Soviet Russia because flag is raising me. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/24 "2007-10-26T22:50:38Z")
I’m guessing that Marie Antoinette might have kept her head had she dressed more like [this](http://www.3wishes.com/detail.asp?product_ID=PB400205). ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/25 "2007-10-26T23:00:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I’m guessing that Marie Antoinette might have kept her head had she dressed more like this. The funny thing is that that model actually appears to be displaying slightly **less** boobage than [this contemporary portrait of Marie Antoinette shows](http://www.ladyreading.net/marieantoinette/big/marie150.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/26 "2007-10-26T23:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] The funny thing is that that model actually appears to be displaying slightly **less** boobage than [this contemporary portrait of Marie Antoinette shows](http://www.ladyreading.net/marieantoinette/big/marie150.jpg). [/QUOTE] I was gonna say! That’s actually the most “accurate” costume I’ve seen so far in this thread. Y’know, if Marie Antoinette’s skirt had been devoured by rottweilers, of course. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098/27 "2007-10-27T01:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] I’m guessing that Marie Antoinette might have kept her head had she dressed more like [this](http://www.3wishes.com/detail.asp?product_ID=PB400205). [/QUOTE] Had she dressed like that, I suspect she’d have been getting a near-constant resupply of head morning, noon, and night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-did-french-maids-really-dress-provactively/424098.md?page=1)