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Interesting facts from the "destiny" Russian padded jacket
At the word "jacket" advanced Internet users usually imagine a Russian patriot, so named because with a light hand and a hard language network trolls. However, today I would like to tell you about these quilted jackets, which in the 20th century to our ancestors are not just clothes. Read more about the interesting facts of the "destiny" Russian padded jacket.
The Byzantine trail
In fact, Russia is not the birthplace of his jacket or jackets. Short quilted linen jackets, warm wool and soaked in vinegar and the fault is with the X century Byzantine infantry uniforms. Ancient noble quilted jacket worn by hearing the name "kavadion" and belonged to the category of light armor. Of course, the Byzantine jacket could hardly protect from arrows, but it could save lives when chop sword or ax. Some historians believe that "kavadion" somewhere in the XI-XII century, spread from the Byzantine and Russian princely retinue, but the Mongol-Tatar invasion brought about changes - "Byzantine jacket" disappeared from the Russian military "wardrobe».
Made in China
Modern padded jacket, probably appeared during the Russian-Japanese war. Stationed in Manchuria of the Russian army drew attention to the comfortable and warm cotton jacket locals and decided to purchase them from local merchants. After demobilization Chinese dushegreyki dispersed throughout the Russian Empire, thus laying the foundations for a true "cult of cotton." Later, quilted jackets fragments were used in the First World and Civil wars, but this national recognition was still far off.
Standardization
In the fall of 1932 Standardization Committee of the People's Commissariat of Light Industry standard introduces his jacket: "Telogreyka - a cotton single-breasted jacket, straight cut, fastens on the board up to the top 4 buttons available to the left side of the four Sew loops (loops). Flooring straight without tucks, with side pockets, quilted through the upper, cotton lining and equity parallel machine lines. The distance between prostёzhkami 6 cm. The back is straight, solid or equity seam in the middle, at the waist shrinks zatyazhnikami with a metal buckle. Prostёzhka back the same hollow. Stand-up collar is soft, fastened with one button loops sewn to the left end thereof. The height of the collar - 3 cm. The single-seam sleeves ending at the bottom of the small slots and cuffs, fastened with one button loops sewn to the end of the upper halves of the cuff. " The authorities of the Soviet Union saw in a padded jacket the perfect clothing that is functional for work and for war. In 1932, in fact, are padded uniforms for builders Belomorkanal.
Clothing tramps
It was no longer a "Chinese" jacket. By and large "standardized" quilted jacket is a kind of "cocktail", which as the "ingredients" included the "Asian" a prototype of the so-called "anthrax" (short coat), popular among merchants at the turn of the century and the so-called shuttlecock, which was a kind coachmen uniforms. Here's how to describe this garment Giljarovsky: "Well-fed, in their ridiculous ruffles expensive cloth, belted embroidered silk belts, reckless look proudly at the passing crowd ... Shuttlecocks were in those long-forgotten days when the angry master beat his fist and kicked in the back of his serf coachman.
Then the shuttle to ugliness stuffed with cotton wool, saving the driver from injury ... "Interestingly, the shuttlecocks were" uniform "in the famous Volga tramps, and then have all sorts of vagrants and valiant people. Padded well softens blows in fights could save on a knife and, in addition, does not restrict movement, which was important for street Dodgers.
The archetype power
However, the leaders of the country's least wanted to quilted jackets associated with the clothing of prisoners and dashing men. In the 1930s, jackets begin to move through the cinema. For example, in the cult film "Chapayev" in quilted jackets flaunt Anka and Petka, showing the most "universality" of the clothes. There are padded jackets and other then "blockbusters". However, in fact, promo in popular culture has not been able to rehabilitate the jacket and make it a national clothing. Only the Great Patriotic War has turned into a cult jacket, making her clothes winners. It rose in a quilted jacket Soviet country from postwar ruin - grow new city, created the Soviet empire.
I must say that over time, his jacket functionality a huge number of competitors, but still it can be found in the wardrobe as well as a university professor and a village shepherd. Probably, in the collective unconscious, he played some unifying role, becoming a kind of talisman, the archetype of power. It is no coincidence that the opening of the victorious Olympic Games in Sochi, the Russian delegation left in a stylized jackets.
Hence
The Byzantine trail
In fact, Russia is not the birthplace of his jacket or jackets. Short quilted linen jackets, warm wool and soaked in vinegar and the fault is with the X century Byzantine infantry uniforms. Ancient noble quilted jacket worn by hearing the name "kavadion" and belonged to the category of light armor. Of course, the Byzantine jacket could hardly protect from arrows, but it could save lives when chop sword or ax. Some historians believe that "kavadion" somewhere in the XI-XII century, spread from the Byzantine and Russian princely retinue, but the Mongol-Tatar invasion brought about changes - "Byzantine jacket" disappeared from the Russian military "wardrobe».
Made in China
Modern padded jacket, probably appeared during the Russian-Japanese war. Stationed in Manchuria of the Russian army drew attention to the comfortable and warm cotton jacket locals and decided to purchase them from local merchants. After demobilization Chinese dushegreyki dispersed throughout the Russian Empire, thus laying the foundations for a true "cult of cotton." Later, quilted jackets fragments were used in the First World and Civil wars, but this national recognition was still far off.
Standardization
In the fall of 1932 Standardization Committee of the People's Commissariat of Light Industry standard introduces his jacket: "Telogreyka - a cotton single-breasted jacket, straight cut, fastens on the board up to the top 4 buttons available to the left side of the four Sew loops (loops). Flooring straight without tucks, with side pockets, quilted through the upper, cotton lining and equity parallel machine lines. The distance between prostёzhkami 6 cm. The back is straight, solid or equity seam in the middle, at the waist shrinks zatyazhnikami with a metal buckle. Prostёzhka back the same hollow. Stand-up collar is soft, fastened with one button loops sewn to the left end thereof. The height of the collar - 3 cm. The single-seam sleeves ending at the bottom of the small slots and cuffs, fastened with one button loops sewn to the end of the upper halves of the cuff. " The authorities of the Soviet Union saw in a padded jacket the perfect clothing that is functional for work and for war. In 1932, in fact, are padded uniforms for builders Belomorkanal.
Clothing tramps
It was no longer a "Chinese" jacket. By and large "standardized" quilted jacket is a kind of "cocktail", which as the "ingredients" included the "Asian" a prototype of the so-called "anthrax" (short coat), popular among merchants at the turn of the century and the so-called shuttlecock, which was a kind coachmen uniforms. Here's how to describe this garment Giljarovsky: "Well-fed, in their ridiculous ruffles expensive cloth, belted embroidered silk belts, reckless look proudly at the passing crowd ... Shuttlecocks were in those long-forgotten days when the angry master beat his fist and kicked in the back of his serf coachman.
Then the shuttle to ugliness stuffed with cotton wool, saving the driver from injury ... "Interestingly, the shuttlecocks were" uniform "in the famous Volga tramps, and then have all sorts of vagrants and valiant people. Padded well softens blows in fights could save on a knife and, in addition, does not restrict movement, which was important for street Dodgers.
The archetype power
However, the leaders of the country's least wanted to quilted jackets associated with the clothing of prisoners and dashing men. In the 1930s, jackets begin to move through the cinema. For example, in the cult film "Chapayev" in quilted jackets flaunt Anka and Petka, showing the most "universality" of the clothes. There are padded jackets and other then "blockbusters". However, in fact, promo in popular culture has not been able to rehabilitate the jacket and make it a national clothing. Only the Great Patriotic War has turned into a cult jacket, making her clothes winners. It rose in a quilted jacket Soviet country from postwar ruin - grow new city, created the Soviet empire.
I must say that over time, his jacket functionality a huge number of competitors, but still it can be found in the wardrobe as well as a university professor and a village shepherd. Probably, in the collective unconscious, he played some unifying role, becoming a kind of talisman, the archetype of power. It is no coincidence that the opening of the victorious Olympic Games in Sochi, the Russian delegation left in a stylized jackets.
Hence
