Figure 1.--This was an original fashion creation appearing in the 1975 isue of the Soviet fashion magazine "The Children Clothes Fashions". |
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Russia especially during the Soviet era is not a country which springs to mind when one thinks of fashion, but the Soviet Union also had fashion magazines. This included one specializing in children's fashions. The magazine was titled The Children Clothes Fashions. At this time we have no information on its publishing history. We do not know when it began publishing or when it ceased publishing. A Russian reader has provided some images from a 1975 issue. Soviet fashion was restricted by a variety of factors. One was there was no real market driven consumer economy as in the West. Another factor was Communist policies of limiting contacts with the West by restricting access to Western publications and media. This Russian designers dod not enjoy the same access tontrends in other other countries that Western designers enjoyed. Even so we note Western Western styles and fashions affecting Sobiet clothing, usally with a time delay. A great has changed in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have, however no information about modern Russian fashion magazines.
We do not know if there were any fashion magazines during the Tsarist era. There was an elite that was very interested in fashion as well as a small, but growing middle class. Large numbers of Russians were peasants that even after the abolition of serfdom barefly participated in the monied economy. Russia especially during the Soviet era is not a country which springs to mind when one thinks of fashion, but the Soviet Union also had fashion magazines. This included one specializing in children's fashions. Soviet fashion was restricted by a variety of factors. One was there was no real market driven consumer economy as in the West. Another factor was Communist policies of limiting contacts with the West by restricting access to Western publications and media. This Russian designers dod not enjoy the same access tontrends in other other countries that Western designers enjoyed. Even so we note Western Western styles and fashions affecting Sobiet clothing, usally with a time delay. A great has changed in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have, however no information about modern Russian fashion magazines.
HBC at this time has very limited information on specific Russian fashion magazines. At this time all we have is the title of one Sovier-era magazine.
This magazine was titled The Children Clothes Fashions. At this time we have no information on its publishing history. We do not know when it began publishing or when it ceased publishing. A Russians reader has provided some images from 1975 and 1981 issues. One matter that is not clear to us is the extent to which the garments displayed in the magazine were actually on sale in Soviet stores. Some mothers may have used the styles for home sewing, but I do not think that these are advertisements for sewing. Hopefully our Russian readers will privide us some information here.
The Russians believevin very basic titles. The knitting pagazine was simply called "Knitting". We know nothing about the magazine at this time. It contained knitting fashions, presumably with patterns or advertisements for patterns. All we know for sire was that the magazine was being published in the 1980s.
No information on other magazines available at this time.
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