The students were fascinated by the contrast between French and German women. In France, noted Shi Min, ‘they wore clothes of a hundred colours and different types of shoes – you would never find two dressed identically’. But German women wore ‘flat shoes on their big feet and clump along the street like camels’. Their clothes looked as if ‘they had been borrowed from an aunt’. There was another striking difference. At the countless sports facilities in and around Berlin, women were as active as the men. ‘Wearing shorts and singlets with bare legs and spiked shoes they did sports like boys,
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Difference in German women
