It’s hard for a modern girl to imagine something like this, but our mothers and grandmothers had few opportunities to dress beautifully and preen themselves. The selection of cosmetics was very limited, the clothes are monotonous and mostly nondescript. Therefore, girls in the Soviet Union had the same desires, dreaming of beautiful images.
Natural fur hat
Yet again the popular film became a trendsetter for all times - “The Irony of Fate.” There, the heroine of Barbara Brylska appears in a beautiful fox fur hat. A little later, mink products came into fashion, and girls coveted this particular model.
The price of a fur product reached 3–4 salaries of the average Soviet citizen.
Hats on the territory of the Union were made in accordance with GOST, they were of high quality and wear-resistant. They were often passed down from generation to generation, as they were very resistant to abrasion and did not tear.
Afghan sheepskin coat
A wave of popularity came to our country only in the 70s of the 20th century. Outerwear was really graceful and elegant. It was a fitted sheepskin coat with a flared knee-length skirt. It was decorated with various patterns, a wide belt, and golden buttons.
It was usually made in beige color. However, some fashionistas managed to get models of other shades.
The highlight was the trim of the collar and sleeves with natural fox fur. They fit incredibly organically into the image and made it as feminine as possible. The price of such a product was 2–3 salaries per month.
Surprisingly, the young ladies of that time incredibly managed to look stylish and bright. How this was done in conditions of severe shortages and fabulous prices for quality products will remain a mystery to us.
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Why are you lying? You don’t know anything about cosmetics, or clothes, or fabrics and their compositions, or what we wore or what cosmetics we used at that time! We used natural, harmless, hypoallergenic cosmetics. For example, I (and many of my friends) had Philip Morris mascara, there were others, a lot of Polish cosmetics of very high quality.The fabrics were most often natural wool, silk, chiffon, velvet, velor, a lot of imports, for example Indian cotton, now this does not exist or is not available to ordinary people. There were a lot of imported goods of high quality and beautiful (Finnish dresses, these suits were already made from synthetics that were fashionable at that time (tricotine, Vorsolan, Crimplene), Swedish boots, I had winter and French demi-season boots made of genuine leather, a lot of Czech shoes and Hungarian ones made of genuine leather etc. And in every locality there were tailoring studios, individual tailoring. So, everything was in order with individuality. Those who wanted to stand out had this opportunity. How tired of this lie. But you can lie to those who did not live in those times time and doesn’t know how it was, or doesn’t remember, because he was too young. But we know and remember! And we remember the smell of real French perfume, I had Ispahan (or Isfahan). And I lived in an urban village in the Urals .
You're lying. Philip Morris mascara appeared in the 80s and was NOT on sale, only through connections. Imported goods? Are you drunk or were you working as a merchandiser? Finnish boots that we got by lottery!!! That is, at work they pulled out pieces of paper, who would get certain things that arrived in some unknown way at the port (the largest port of the Union!) Swedish boots? You're definitely drunk. Tsebov shoes were considered STILL more or less wearable, but ugly shoes from Soviet factories stood in neat rows, which killed your feet. It was expensive to sew in the studio and there were NO good fabrics. There was a terrible piece of cotton hanging there and who knows what ugly color the cotton was. Yes, there were woolen fabrics, but they could be used to sew a “mymra” suit from an Office Romance.Lord, our pleated school uniforms were brought from MOSCOW, or were sewn and altered by mothers, because the terrible orphan dresses were a sack on any girl. Guipure aprons were made from tulle. We lived and live in the Far East, and everything described in the article is TRUE.
With mascara-bar, as you called it, you could paint such huge eyelashes that no modern eyelashes could be made. There was a 10D build-up effect. The main thing is not to get caught in the rain.
There was nothing good in the stores. Everything was sold by farcists with a 100 percent markup. The atelier sewed very lousy. Many women sewed and knitted themselves, since atelier services were expensive and the quality was very low. Decent cosmetics appeared very late - in the 80s. These are the freedom and dzintras factories. In the photo I saw a very familiar Theater powder. When I couldn’t buy it, I powdered it myself with galvanizing powder. I bought it at the pharmacy. Salaries were small and buying any item of clothing or shoes was difficult and expensive.
At different times there are different desires. What was the “last squeak”, after a couple of years, is already the bottom below the sewer.
Marina, Philip Morris - these are cigarettes that were difficult to get (I don’t smoke, but I tried them out of curiosity). But the French mascara that you might have in mind was called Louis Philippe. It was also rarely found on free sale.
Yes, you are right, Louis Philippe, I was wrong too. God, how she smelled. When it dried, they diluted the remains... It was impossible to get