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  –  just like any­thing else, fash­ion had to be “planned” and “approved”.
Offi­cially the most pop­u­lar designs were the clas­sic ones. Not only were they set […]

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In the Soviet times there was a great short­age of all con­sumer prod­ucts. Clothes or food were no excep­tion. In order to buy some bread peo­ple were ready to spend hours and hours queu­ing up.
1983. A long queue into the footwear store. The length of the line implies that peo­ple would expect to buy imported footwear  which […]

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