ENGLISH GIRLS’ CLOTHES,

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 5

ENGLISH GIRLS’ CLOTHES,

It is my belief that Copenhagen now enjoys the reputation of being the gayest capital in Europe; that it has. become, in fact, the Vienna of the North, states an overseas writer.

Appropriately enough, these Danish girls are all beautifully dressed. Indeed, their sartorial perfection is a trifle overwhelming.

I think there may be a psychological reason for all this glitter. Nowhere is beauty more commonplace than in Denmark; almost every girl is a iiving symphony in white and gold.

Therefore Die Danish girl feels that she- has to dress the part. To make her face stand out in the crowd she strives to become the embodiment of what Ihe best-dressed girl should wear. Consequently they all look like mannequins. Yel, although there arc many interesting foreign lypes of women with a reputation for chic, I have yet to bo convinced that they can heal the Englishwoman. I once declared that. London girls were the epitome of feminine smartness. Thai still holds good.

The beauty of it is that the welldressed English woman can wear anything—and gel away with it! She is marvellous in tailor-mades, and her dresses can he dreams.

She is neither a peacock nor a mannequin: but her dollies have that smart rorrerlness which is essentially English. Her piquant personality is best displayed by styles combining the sophistication of Mayfair with the fresh charm of an English April. In spile of ilcrce foreign eompeliI ion. I lie girls we see in Bond Street, the women we meet al Danelagh and (.owes, are slill Hie besl-drcssed in Iho world.