Germany and Paris Fashions.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 23, 4 June 1913, Page 12

Germany and Paris Fashions.

Dr. Deoge, who wants to deliver Germany from the dominion of Paris fashians, can hardly derive much encouragement from the record of his predecessors in this patriotic field. The first of these appears to have, been Franz Ehrenberger, who in 1785 published a fruitless appeal to German women imploring them to give up copying their French neighbours, and to adopt a national dress on lines of which he sketched a number of examples. Three years later Somnieriug, a wellknown'anatomist, denounced the corset as a foreign and unhealthy invention, which should be abandoned by all patriotic women. About the same time another prominent doctor, Camper, attacked high heels on the same grounds. Many subsequent attempts have been made in a similar direction, the only one attended with any degree of success being after Waterloo, when for a time “ Alt-Deutsch ” costumes were adopted for everyday wear by a number of enthusiasts of both sexes.