Crazy Soviet trends that drove the then fashionistas crazy, but now they cause only bewilderment

Many people call the Soviet style of clothing uninteresting and boring. However, despite the general shortage, the citizens of the Soviet Land also wanted clothes that were not only practical, but also beautiful. Today, the fashion trends of those years have already been forgotten. But we decided that readers would probably want to guess what their grandparents' wardrobe items were called.



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1. What was the name of the hat that the heroine of Barbara Brylska wears in the cult film “Irony of Fate, or With a Light Steam!”?
   
   
   
   (a) papaha
   b.
   (c) boyar
   
   
2. What was the name of pants in the Soviet Union?
   
   
   
   (a) reitus
   (b) pantaloons
   (c) leggings
   
   
3. In the USSR, what was the name given to immoral young people who stood out with bright clothes and showed an increased interest in music from abroad?
   
   
   
   GettyImages a) parasites
   (b) plodding
   (c) styles
   
   
4. In the 70s, what was the name of a women's flat shirt with a large detached collar with sharp ends?
   
   
   
   (a) tunic
   (b) batnik
   blouse
   
   
5. When did the fashion for mini start in the USSR?
   
   
   
   (a) late 60s
   (b) late 50s
   (c) late 70s
   
   
6. How did Soviet fashionistas call dense colored tights with various drawings?
   
   
   
   (a) Omsa
   (b) lobes
   (c) grace
   (d) Oro Rosa
   
   
7. What was the name of a man’s hat, whose “ears” could not be lowered?
   
   
   
   (a) Finn
   (b) bomber
   (c) molding
   
   
8. What is the sarcastic name of these bots?
   
   
   
   (a) Goodbye, youth!
   (b) Hello, old age!
   
   
9. What was the name of the popular Turkish sweater with ornament, which in the early 90s sported both boys and girls?
   
   
   
   (a) Girls
   (b) Boyce
   (c) Lambada
   
   
10. Can you remember how in the late 70s they called a sports knitted cap rectangular shape?
    
    
    
    (a) Sport
    (b) envelope
    (c) Rooster
    (d) Hockey
    
    

Answers.

1. Low fur cap cylindrical shape with a flat top is Kuban. Initially, it was the headdress of the Kuban Cossacks, from where it got its name. In the USSR, the fashion for lush women's fur hats came not without the help of the heroine Barbara Brylska from the cult film "Irony of Fate, or With Light Steam!"
2. Real. reitus (from German reithosen) are comfortable tight trousers for riding. In the 1930s, clothes with stripes were discovered by athletes.
3. term "styles" To designate Soviet imitators of the Western way of life, he introduced the satirical magazine Crocodile.
4. In the 1970s in the USSR, women’s and men’s tight shirts of bright colors were called the word "batnik". It comes from the distorted English phrase “batn-down” (button-down collar – collar with ends fastened to the shirt).
5. In the summer of 1957, the VI World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Moscow. In 1959, models of Christian Dior fashion house visited the capital of the USSR. And already in 1966, the models of the young fashion designer Slava Zaitsev for the first time went on a show in short skirts. When the miniskirt firmly established in life, it was reflected on the screen. Remember the seductively short robe of the heroine Svetlana Svetlichnaya in the film Gaidai’s “Diamond Hand” released in 1969. Therefore, the beginning of the craze mini in the USSR can be safely called late 1960s.
   
   
6. From Paris to Nakhodka – “Omsa” the best tights! But dense colored tights with a variety of drawings because of the consonance with the name of the company Dolci calze received the name "shares".
7. Hat moldings They were at the peak of fashion in the 80s and 90s of the last century. It was impossible to lower the ears of such a hat, but at the same time it turned out to be lighter, and in general looked decenter than an ordinary Ushanka.
8. The top of this truly cult model was made of felt or felt with insulation. The sole was poured out of rubber, and a zipper was placed on the front surface. Soft bots were popular with older people with arthritis, because they were much more comfortable to wear than hard leather shoes. Perhaps this is where the name came from. "Goodbye, youth!"

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A sweater with the legendary inscription "Boys Team", or simply Boyce., as they were called by the people, is a cult garment of the early 90s. Knitted hats that adorned the head of every second Soviet citizen in the 80s received the name of the people. "cockerel". They became especially fashionable after the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Although men’s fashion in the USSR has always been more conservative than women’s fashion, it is also worth remembering today. Heavy drap coats, double-breasted jackets and wide trousers with cuffs: we tell how Soviet men dressed.

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