NAZI FASHIONS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12525, 10 April 1935, Page 3

NAZI FASHIONS

| HITLER'S "MANNEQUINS fx | LONDON j I.OX DON , Ala. eh 16. ! Berlin as a centre- of fashion! • Well, we learn daily. Dr GoobbeLs, Herr Hitler's MinL-tory for Propa- | ganda and Public Knlightment, does i not want England to think that unior the Nazi regime German women don t know bow to make themselves attractive. So 12 dark-haired German girls arrived m London to show off. German clothes. The parade started off with a black classic coat and skirt, of the sort which would have been tailor made in England. A lemon yellow blouse was worn with this. Then came two trouser skirts—a a pretty big concession to modernity There was one backless, sleeveless dress of dark blue art silk. The idea for tills was evidently derived from an alpaca apron. Hats, A lost frequent formulatake a medium-sized straw, either turn sharply up or bend abrupt lv | down, both back and front, j Evening dresses were mostly floral Oiio or i-wn Tukl tll o nowisli wide* skirts. Large floral decorations were worn on the head—big wreaths of ioscs, coronets of gardenias. One girl with a haytieh? printed chiffon dress were poppies and straw in her hair. The mannequins .showed them all expertly. Tot they looked ns if a 'kittle woman” had ru n them up from designs taken from Paris fashion magazines a few months old. Prince von Bismarck, announced as •Councillor of the German Empire” made a speech. 1T 0 said he hoped Germany would got an opportunity to see English fashions. No. Berlin doesn’t quite look /like' becoming fashion centre of Evirope yot. But it would not bo fnifc4o blame Herr Hitler, ft never dii\