Chloe had a bit of fun with this fantasy ‘Frenchwoman’ pictorial lensed in the fall of October 2000. She was play-acting the part of a female French Apache dancer. The Apaches adopted an underworld lifestyle and style of dress which came into vogue in Paris before World War 1. In this street culture, the men were pimps, thieves and drug addicts; the women prostitutes or look-outs. Their behavior on the dance floor usually featured the male flinging his female dance partner around in a sort of melodramatic psycho-sexual mating ritual. The word Apache (pronounced ah – pahash) is a Parisian slang term describing these violent French street gangs of the early 1900s. They fought with extreme brutality which led to newspaper reporters describing them as wild as American Apache Indians in the heat of battle. Apache social dancing was noted as a form of “street swing” which incorporated the movements of urban fighting in a bizarre amalgam of art, dance and hand-to-hand combat. There are cases of Apache dancers accidentally killing a partner from the violent throws and hand strikes. Nightclub entertainers later appropriated the style and dress of the prototypical Apache (striped shirt, scarf, beret) in their dance performances until it became cliched. Chloe definitively sets the standard in being the best looking (and bustiest) female Apache dancer in history.
