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Fashion in the USSR. DIY.
During the Soviet times fashion was first and foremost, an instrument of propaganda of hard work attitudes and education of good taste. Therefore the way people were dressed was very strictly regulated...
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Catwalk Models With No Underwear On. Haute Couture Soviet Style.
A catwalk model, circa 1947–1957. Haute Couture, just like in any other other country in the world, did have a place in the USSR. However, it was a different, isolated, strange and suffering element,...
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Sexy Soviet Underwear. Not!
Late 1960s. Actress Svetlana Svetlichnaja is doing a wee strip dance for a movie. This was probably the most R-rated scene of the Soviet cinematography. Due to a series of not so fortuitous events (...
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Dirty Dancing Soviet Style
Just like anywhere else in the world, the Soviet youngsters wanted to socialize, to listen to the music and to dance. The nightclubs were unheard of – anything of that kind would have been announced as...
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Christian Dior in Moscow: a Fleeting Sense of Happiness
1959. The official photo shoot, images courtesy of LIFE archives (Howard Sochurek) The Khrushchev’s Thaw was to bring change to many aspects of the Soviet life, and fashion was one of them. The...
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The Patriotic Education in USSR. Part 2 — Pioneers, Soviet Boy Scouts
We are the pioneers, sons of working class (a popular song) As you remember from the previous post, at the age of 9 the Soviet Kids grew out of their October Kids affiliation. The next ideological rite...
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British Fashion in Moscow, June 1956.
All images are by Lisa Larsen, for LIFE magazine. In 1956 an array of British designers were trying to expand their market share into the Soviet Union. So a fashion week of some sort took place — in...
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Good Soviet Kids Go to Heaven? Nope, They Go to Artek!
Kids in the traditional uniform. The most famous PR image of the pioneria of the Soviet Union was a summer vacation camp situated in the Crimea (Ukraine), next to Gurzuf town. Founded as a sanatorium...
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The Fashions of the War Times
I have come across a very neat collection of the old Soviet fashion magazines from the forties, and I thought I’d share them with you. Very elegant, stylish images — and a little surprise from the...
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