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WOMEN DRIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN
IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE » »
TO MAKE A MISTAKE
Br H. TEMBERTON
small, slow car. I do not mean by this taat women are not driving small cars. For many, the type is ideal.
I have been spending a number of days on highways and byways studying the standard of driving
But the days when it was con- of the woman motorist (1933, model).sidered a highly dangerous thing Here are some of the questions for a woman to handle and have that it was suggested might be control of high power are over. Answered with interest:--
That was a man-made idea. Women have discovered that the big car is netually easier to drive in many cases than the little fellow.
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Is the woman driver as bad ahe is painted? (This does not refer to complexion.)
Has she improved this year?
Is it true that she is driving faster and more powerful cars than hitherto 1 If so, how does she handle thema?
What does she wear at the wheel I have the honour to report that I have carried out the above in structions. 1
In answer to Question 1:
The woman driver is certainly not as bad as she is painted. She has improved this year-vustly so.
In fact, the pupil is rapidly sur passing her master if the nervous busbands and reckless young bucks who usually teach women how not to drive can be described as mas
tors.
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She has emerged from the stage
I suppose we men tried to keep it a secret as long as possible, so as to maintain our sense of superior ity.
DRESSES MATCH
CARS
ALL-WHITE-FASHION FOR MOTORING
woman motorist,
Hitherto it has been banned, as unpractical by the woman at the wheel, but the new vogue launched in Paris at the week-end.
ROSE, RUBY, AND MOTHER-
OF-PEARL
I wonder if the London actresses who are dancing in that new and exotic Show at the Arts Theatre will prove to have set up a new fashion in hand-make-up!
MOTHER OF-PEARL NAILS
The older woman is receiving "attention in the beauty parlours too just" now. A special nail varnish, with a mother of pearl effect, has been devised for women with white hair, while another specialist has a four-process beauty treatment only for women in the fortice,
Naw shades of nail varnish in-
for red-haired
White is the latest colour for the. Their nails are tinted ruby-red, clude cyclamen for all-blue 80- as are those of most women of to-sembles only and mahogany, a
brownish red day, but in addition to this they
beauties. stain their palma rose-pink, which i makes white hands lovely, and even ; brown hands seem exquisitely pale and dainty,
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Motorcars are painted white to match the dress ensemble
This is a development of the re- cent crate on the part of women of fashion to dress in the same colour as the immediate surroundings.
Several London hostesses have re- cently introduced the fashion of the all-white drawing-room, in which they sally appear gowned, in white, but the vogue has now been extended to out-of-doors functions.
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In the ballet-scens, pink paint is also used on the soles of the feet, and earried up into a little point on each beel,—a hint for sun- bathers, and let me add that the effect is bewitching.
An all-white car, with every ac-rould wear what she liked outside cessory to match, was much admired Paris. at a smart motoring event off the Champs Elysées. The driver. also clad in white, wore a wide-brimmed white hat.
"Cartwheel" Hats,
Many other wearers of large sum- mer hats did so in defiance of the that the woman wwwritten law motorist must don a heret or simi lar small cap. Spectators marvel- led at the way in which these "cart- wheels: stayed on the heads of wearors even in open cars. It was milliner, who designs her hats to a tribute to the art of the modern
fit the head as closely as possible. in contrast to the large Edwardian creations which had to be fastened in place with hatpins.
Straw turbans, Circassian hats In order to ret as judge of and "gigolo" sailor hats were the "women's gear-changing, I took my choice of those drivers who clung stand on Bury Hill, in Sussex-to the brimless or small-brimmed real test of skill for any driver. If models as more suited to motoring. you do not change downs bera at the The Circassian hat is of the amok. right time yiu are. sunk that is, ing map order, with a long tassel you have to crawl up the gradient in bottom gear and degradation.
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With a few exceptions, the women drivers came through the test with flying colours.
I saw one elderly woman in an ancient car make a young man in a well sports car look perfectly silly on the hill, simply because she had made a faultless change at the correct time.
I must have seen no fewer than
of apprenticeship, and is rapidly forty women make the climb. In becoming the splendid craftswoman. only two cases did the gear-box
Of course, we are talking inocer a sigh of protest.
generalities. I am writing of the I also found that women were
more law-abading than men
how many thousands of women who have reached a stage of motoring maturity.
many
I watched commering on one famous bond on the Brighton road near Dorking. Not one woman out of a large number crossed the white dividing line, whereas numerous men drivers disdained this splendid safety-first device.
In the execution af my duty I have followed women over miles of ronds in the south of Eng land. I have been surprised at their judgment, their skill, their gear changing, their speed, and their tolerance of men drivers. In In the matter of signalling my most cases I should say pleasantly report is not so satisfactory, Sign surprised.
als were given in most cases, and in a few instances the actual si was according to that laid down in the Highway Code.
We had better perhaps introduce here the third question.
Yes; women are driving faster, and bigger cars. I have seen hun- drds of women during the past few days at the wheels of 80 m.p.h. sports cars, big heavy saloons, and dainty little semi-racing cars.
In fact, in carrying out my in
structions one of the first women drivers I encountered on the King- ston by-pass was a fair representa- tive of the new type.
I heard a gentle note from à booter-not the raucous blast that many gentleman [sic] of the road give when they wish you to get out of their sanguinary way
But they were given to impetu ously.
In giving signals you must not immediately translate thought into acts. To give the right-turn signal and to tuna at the same time is no however, is a fault common to both warning to following rivers. This,
sexes.
Women also failed in the parking
test.
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For some curious' reason most women appear to find it impossible to drive a car backwards-which is necessary if you wish to park a car skilfully in a small space.
White pique and white organdie dresses were chosen by many woman, and large black hate provided an effeitive contrast. Colours were also worn to match the hues of smart cars. Striped cravat silk jackets accompanied white frocks where a colour note was wanted.
MARLENE, PUTS ON SKIRTS!
AFTER A HINT FROM PARIS POLICE CHIEF
and her trousers in Paris was writ to the comedy of Marlene Dietrich Paris, May 21-Another chapter
ten to-day by M. Chiappe, the Paris chief of police
She is now staying at a Versailles hotel with her husband and little daughter, and she made her ap pearance in feminine clothes this morning.-B.U.P.
He stated to-day that it was illegal for any woman to attract in the streets of this city in male undue attention" by appearing attire. Therefore the film etar, who Was jeered when she arrived in Paris on Friday dressed in a man's This inust be some sort of femi-liable to be prosecuted if she per- lounge suit and wearing govgles, is red sports car slid by. I caught nine weakness, like the inability to sists in wearing male attire while sight of a red bat, very small and no a stone straight at a given obstaying here. shaped like a petrol filler cap ject. It would be undivalrous to
Then the long, lean, bonnet of a
(fashion note). On either side of the red hat there fluttered in the breeze a red curl-or, maybe, they were auburn.
You see, the fashion is for every- thing to harmonise with the And why not? You would not put pink roses in a yellow vase.
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be was concerned Miss Dietrich
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describe the scenes I witnessed at a M. Chiapps added that as far ne public parking place in. Kingston.
Distance judging also seems to be slightly at fault.
Most men are still frightened to death when driven by women.
I saw one miserable fellow silting by the side of a young woman driv ing a big saloon car.
Here, 1 though, is a good test. Here is a young and pretty woman Fear was written all over his with a very powerful car. I will face. He appeared to have one see how the handles it. I will fol-hat ready to clutch the controls.. low in the course of my duty.
I trod on the accelerator. The speedometer olimbed from forty to fifty. The young woman with the red hat and red or auburn curls in the red sports car glanced found at my ponderous tourer and emiled en couragingly
I accelerated to sixty.
His eyes darted right and left as though he was ready to leap out of the car at the least sign of danger.
I am sure that most of the time he waa prassing his foot-hard down on an imaginary brake--I have done the same myself.
I followed that car for same miles. The young woman was driv-
All I saw was the tail of the caring as well as, if not better than, fading away in the distance, but the average man driver. There was not before this young woman had no justification for the man's panic. 2 It is the old, old"" story-man's impudently given the " pass me
idea of the inferiority of women signal.
when action and nerve, are called for. I have criticised the woma driver on many occasions in the
I can only report that she was in deed a very fast young woman,
She is typical of the oman past motorist of 1933.
But now in 1933. Women have revolted against the remain her very ardent
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