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Beach life in the USSR
40-ies of XX century. White linen bras for these girls is unlikely to industrial production. In those years, there is little you can buy ready-made garments from - from underwear, women, basically, all sewed. And to get the good stuff was not so easy. Clothes cherished - to alter, if possible perelitsovyvat nothing thrown.
In June 1959, Moscow hosted the first fashion show of the house of Christian Dior. For that time it was an incredible event - an opportunity to get acquainted with foreign fashion, so different, refined, inaccessible, and therefore even more alluring. Soviet fashionistas burst.
Following a series of beach photos German photojournalist Peter Bock-Schroeder. Presumably in 1959.
Below is a series of photographs by American photographer Bill Epridzha.
Source: ussr-kruto.ru
