THE GERMAN WOMEN
NOW SLIM SPORTS. German women, who before the war, were Usually considered to be among the less fasionable of Europe, have made amazing strides in learning the lore of dress. When I went to Germany a month before the war, (writes Lilian Harvey, English film,.star), women rately wore evening dress in the threatre, and a blouse and skirt were almost a uniform being worn morning, noon and niglit! Now I. can see little.difference between the dress of the women I seein the big hotels and theatres in London and in Germany. Dress in Germany has had the natural effect of making womenfolk take care of their figures. The prewar figure of the majority of the women were not so shapely as they are now because modern women realiso that short skirts are not elegant with big hips, and unshapely legs. Consequently by ■ means of massage and “physical jerks” they try to keep down their weight and achieve the straight, slim lines fashion, demands.
So keen has grown the enthusiasm for “physical jerks,” that exercises are broadcast from time to time, and women indulge in tlie exercises in their homes to instructions received from a loud speaker.
Dieting, too, is now taken very seriously. It is necessary if one to keep slim and at the same time * live as the Germans, do, for the«foo§ Is so very solid and starchy.' * The cocktail habit is not so marked * “ in Germany as it is in London. German girls’will sometimes drink them when they are at a restaurant, but this refreshment is rarely seen in a German house unless they are provided for English or American visitors who'"are staying in the house.
The younger generation is very keen on dancing, but, even so, the hotels and restaurants do not provide the facilities which Londoners'have. Very few hotels have the large ballrooms which I see in comparatively small restaurants in England.
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Shannon News, 27 January 1928, Page 3
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319THE GERMAN WOMEN Shannon News, 27 January 1928, Page 3
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