Mysterious cover illustration

Chickelacke and chic - what’s the connection?

I found this old girl’s magazine in Lyon, France last time I was there, at the stand of one of the traditional used books sellers along the riverside.

Nothing weird at all until I noticed that the girl on the cover illustration had blue eyes, a traditional “russ” outfit with hat and a bamboo stick with a flag colored ribbon (you’re a russ when you celebrate the senior year at high school). And then I saw the royal castle in Oslo in the background. Funky.

Why would a Norwegian drawing make it to the cover of a French magazine from the fifties? Or is this a French illustration about girls at Karl Johan, the high street of Oslo?

I forgot to look inside the covers for the answer, so I have no idea. Does anyone recognize the style of any particular illustrator?

The tagline says Le journal des chic filles, meaning that the target group are all those chic girls. You know. The kind of teenagers who have a fashion blog with makeup and shopping tips these days.

It’s probably too far fetched to make a connection between the fact that Norwegian high school students yell “chickelacke chickelacke boom boom boom” (oh, and DON’T ask why!) during the russ celebration and the keyword “chic”.

There could have been a mishap during a google image search. But this was a few years before the web came along.