I am getting some help here. I don’t necessarily notice much of this. Maybe length of skirts … but that’s about it.

So, what is going on here, in the capital of fashion?

When we arrived, Parisians were still dressed for winter. And it rained that first weekend, yes, though it was not cold, and even when the sun first came out everyone was still all layered up …

Now, after a full week of sun, the summer stuff is out.

Reports our correspondent: “Dresses are short, shorts are shorter and the colors are vivid. Cobalt is the color on the street, and orange or coral seems to be the color in the shop windows.”

On the short shorts front, most girls/women seem to have discarded the “tights below the shorts” thing — a weird look, in any case — that was near universal a year ago. Cigarettes are this year’s current accessory. Handbags are big in the shops but small on the street.

The boots have been replaced by sandals, and no one style is apparent. (Nothing like the “gladiator” look of a few years back.) The fashion correspondent says: “I have not looked at anyone’s feet and said ‘I have to have those.'”

Men are wearing shorts in unprecedented numbers. And not just the tourists.

Shorts were rare, for male or female Parisians, even five or six years ago. It was not considered proper city wear. Now shorts are common for both sexes. Thankfully, the men’s are not as short as the women’s.

Women also are wearing baby-doll-style dresses, light and “floaty” and generally short.

Men seem enamored of the “fake jersey” look in shirts — with a number (usually over the heart) for a team that doesn’t exist. And X number of would-be hipsters are wearing the ironic little hat that Tom Brady seems to have popularized a few years back.

Said the correspondent: “Coming from Abu Dhabi, where modesty is encouraged, I am impressed by the carefree way the women carry themselves, without concern for the opinions of others.”

The correspondent also notes that “spring” and “summer” are anything but fixed seasons in Paris, and that a few days of rain will have the entire female population back in the boots they so recently put away.