WOMEN'S FORUM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1932, Page 11

WOMEN'S FORUM.

FASHION HINTS. The latest fashion hints say that for the untrimined cloth ensemble the newest thing is the fur set, comprising I choker-tie (often a narrow band with wider and rounded ends), belt and gauntlet gloveti. A smart trimming for the tie-end or gauntlet is the appliqued initial of the customer. Initials are generally of futurist design and look well in light fur on dark or vice versa. The latest tones in eye-shadow are the green-bronze and the bluish-green. The bronze shade looks well with red, purple and burgundy tints. The blue-green is more suitable for grey or black gowns. GERMAN WOMEN. "I do not find the average German woman anything so good-looking as lici English sister," says a woman writer in an English paper, when giving her impressions of Germany. "This docs not mean that there are no pretty girls here. On tlio contrary, some of the most beautiful women I have seen were German i, but there arc so many who do not take much interest in their appearance. They aro mostly neatly dressed, even the poor ones, and for the evening they make more effort, but they seem to choose their clothes with little taste, and often have a strange mixture of colours, Schoolgirls can hardly be distinguished from their mothers, for they are much bigger and more developed than English girls, and their dresses are long and made in a grown-up style. Even the children wear long stockings light through the summer, unless they are playing in what they call training-suits, when they wear none at all. It is really surprising to see the number of women with long hair, and many of them still drag it back tightly from the face and wear it in a bun." The writer went on to say that the Germans seemed to eat a good deal more than people did in England, but the food was most palatable and wholesome. The Brunswick sausage, a sort of polony, was world famous, and a thick slice of grey bread plentifully spread with this formed the eleven o'clock lunch of most business people.

Afternoon tea was coffee and cake. There were no dainty slices of wafer-like bread and butter, but the cakes were very good and were generally accompanied a large portion of whipped cream. English bread was looked 011 as being far less healthy than the rather heavy German kind. The Germans were very polite to strangers, and it was rather quaint to see little girls, and even big ones, dropping curtseys to people older than themselves.