What did the true Aryan girls used to wear?

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What did the true Aryan girls used to wear?

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Post by FrozenLady » 05 May 2015, 20:07

Who was the most stylish woman or the style icon of the Reich? What was women's fashion back then? According to BBC website:

"Women were supposed to emulate traditional German peasant fashions - plain peasant costumes, hair in plaits or buns and flat shoes. They were not expected to wear make-up or trousers, dye their hair or smoke in public."

While in Hollywood movies we see a completely different picture. In most of Nazi movies we see women wearing dark red lipstick, with Peek-a-Boo bang, wearing a glamorous evening gown and holding a cigarette.

Are there online magazines and photos which we can see. Or did they followed the same fashion as the Britain and USA in 1940's e.g Rita Hayworth?

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 05 May 2015, 21:06

FrozenLady wrote:According to BBC website: "Women were supposed to emulate traditional German peasant fashions - plain peasant costumes, hair in plaits or buns and flat shoes. They were not expected to wear make-up or trousers, dye their hair or smoke in public."
Utter nonsense.

Find for example any copy of the "Signal" magazine and you will see women with dyed hair, make-up, trousers etc.

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Post by Geoff Walden » 10 May 2015, 13:59

Here are a couple of fashionably-dressed women visiting the SS guards at the Platterhof Hotel on the Obersalzberg, ca. 1940. Just one example of how German women dressed in style, far from a plain peasant costume.
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Post by FrozenLady » 11 May 2015, 20:52

Hi,

These are very pretty stylish ladies. Thank you for sharing with us!

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Post by wm » 12 May 2015, 00:26

lots of women, even those emulating traditional German peasant fashions, in color:

or here, at 4:10 for example:

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Post by history1 » 24 Apr 2016, 10:47

What did the true Aryan girls used to wear?

Anything they got their hands on. And it depended very much where they did live (city vs. countryside).
Just lastweek my grandma told me how pride she did wear a dress she got from her aunt living in the US. Theyself were to poor to buy such fine material. She further told me when she were it sundays while walking old people commented: "Oh, what a nice dress, probably american!"

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Post by Knouterer » 25 Apr 2016, 14:15

True Aryan girls would of course be members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) and would consequently spend a lot of time in sports outfits.
Picture from an Austrian illustrated magazine, caption says: "The young generation, Greater Germany's pride and strength"
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Post by Knouterer » 25 Apr 2016, 14:27

I suppose it's impossible for even the worst dictators to keep girls from wearing nice dresses and makeup, but the Nazis did make some attempts in that direction. Photo of BDM girls in the village of Röddenau, in the very center of Germany, in 1938:
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Post by freddiefro » 26 Apr 2016, 04:58

(Source: NARA)

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Post by ChristopherPerrien » 28 Apr 2016, 01:38

Their dress was typical of Europe in the timeframe, and also much was made of "traditional" (older style) German garb. Same as os done os Germany now. They wear the contemporary fashions and then you see beer maids during Octoberfest and such. There were some movement toward old style simple modes(medieval/peasant) of dress but these never caught on as german girls and women wanted to be fashionable over being "dressed like their grandmothers" so to speak. There was also a movement in Nazi Germany toward "nudism' as a way of celebrating the physical beauty and revival of the "aryan/Nordic" peoples, but German's and Europeans in general were never hung up on nudity as being some forbidden thing in the first place. I recommend Taschen books as a source of photo history of this era.

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Post by MMTB » 29 Apr 2016, 16:17

League of German Girls from Salzburg

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Post by MMTB » 29 Apr 2016, 16:27

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Post by MMTB » 29 Apr 2016, 16:30

Look like Luftwaffe Helferinnen in sports uniform. The girl in the middle has some large twin engine Junker Ju-88 :D

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