BERLIN HEAT WAVE
BATHING SUITS IN OFFICES BERLIN, July 7. The protracted heat wave here lias broken down conventional barriers both in business houses and in Ilie Reichstag. One oi’ this evening’s papers prints a photograph of girl clerks doing their office work in the minimum of bathing dress permitted by local custom to their sex. A shade temperature of Dli to-day triumphed over .Parliamentary decorum. A solemn decision of 1 lit* Chair opened both the House itself and the public gallery to “summer clothing,” which now means in Berlin a shirt, trousers, uad a belt.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17346, 25 August 1930, Page 2
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96BERLIN HEAT WAVE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17346, 25 August 1930, Page 2
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