More on my friend’s visit. Surprising but true.  French girls these days love Japanese dress-making books!  Can you believe it? My friend showed me several very popular French crafty blogs (blogs by crafty people who sew, knit, etc.).  They buy Japanese dress-making books all the way from Japan, and although they can’t read Japanese, they still love them.  (All this time, Japanese people try to imitate what French people are wearing… hmmm, it’s interesting.) To me, most of the Japanese sewing patterns (洋裁の本) contains mostly baggy and dull (filled with beige and grey colors) designs.  But those French people adopt the original design to themselves, pick more beautiful and colorful fabrics, and create really beautiful clothes.It’s really interesting that in France, because of the…