Fashion Publications and Children's Fashions: Russian Publications


Figure 1.--This was an original fashion creation appearing in the 1975 isue of the Soviet fashion magazine "The Children Clothes Fashions".

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.

Russian Fashion Publishing

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.

Russian Fashion Magazines

HBC at this time has very limited information on specific Russian fashion magazines. Our Russian readers have provided some limited information. Fashion in the Soviet Union was a curious concept. On one had the Soviets wanted to show that they were not behind the times. On the other hand, in s worler's paradisde, fashion was seen by some as a hoplessly bourgeois concept, perhs[s not counter revolutionary, but not quite in keeping with the ethos of the Soviet state. The fashion maazines we have found seemn to have focused on high fashion and not the garments thst workers would have worn. Wldso do notknow wjhatthe press runs were for these publications and how weidely disdtriuted they were.







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