One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934 while ‘lipstick so beloved of Jewesses’ had been deemed un-German and relegated to the dustbin.4 When Truman Smith’s eleven-year-old daughter drew a picture in class of her American grandmother with bright red lips, her teacher responded with horror, ‘Oh Kätchen, grandmothers don’t use lipstick!’
Traditional female stereotypes becamd the norm
