GERMANY TO-DAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21552, 25 July 1933, Page 3

GERMANY TO-DAY

NAZI FASHIONS Berlin presents a curious colour picture to the observant visitor, a canvas composed of grey, scarlet and brown, states a writer in an overseas newspaper. Grey coats and suits seem to bo favoured by every second woman in conjunction with scarlet. Scarlet and white frocks, scarlet blouses and bright red sailor hats, show up in vivid contrast to the übiquitous brown shirts and uniforms of the Nazis. The quantity of uniforms in Berlin gives one the impression of a country, at war. However, big Jewish stores, such as "Wertheims" and "K.D.V.," appeared to be doing a steady business, and no boycott was apparent. The "Nazi" idea has even penetrated the fashion field in Germany, and in one of the well-known restaurants on the Unter den Linden I saw a girl wearing a beret type of hat with large "swastikas" printed all over, together with a pin with a swastika design on the head. Another thing which amused me was to observe, one night on the roof garden of the Eden Hotel, that the danco orchestra was obeying the instructions from headquarters to eschew foreign-composed music and play only German, with the result that in one of the fashionable night resorts one heard, instead of modern American dance music, German waltzes and German polkas, etc. This seems to bo carrying nationalism to extremes.