Of course you can wear Hermes! I have madly curly hair, and love it. I am also a bit (okay, a lot) zaftig - curvy and voluptuous, we like to say, and I'm just over 50 and I think Hermes and I go very well together. I also think my curly hair gives me a look of "lots of fun" rather than "very serious." Since I have a somewhat serious mind, I have grown to really appreciate that.
Real chic is about individuality, a relation of your wonderful inner self to the outside world. It isn't what you have, it's what you choose to do with it.
The first 25 years of my life, my hair was beautiful, but a trial. I mean, I slept in rollers! Then my first husband, bless his pointed head, told me, "I am going to free you from your hair." And so he sent me to one of the top stylists on the west coast. I about died when I saw the bill, even though he was paying. And it turned out he was right! So the second 25 years, of my life I have had wonderful, flattering hair that is not just chic but pretty easy to care for. (Oh, and somewhere in there, a really nice second husband.)
If you are pale with freckles and curly hair, I'll bet you are just adorable! What the French call "gamine." So get a great haircut, develop an insouciant air, read newspapers and a good book or two for some insouciant conversation, and you GO, GIRL!!!
(Oh, and don't get me started about my dear mother - thin and elegant to the end of her life. Patrician looks and dignified manner. She even looked chic in a hospital gown, and on the geriatric ward the male patients were flocking to her like flies to honey. Need I mention, I take after my father?)
