In Russian Style: clothes, handmade, artefacts

USSR artefacts: soviet placards of the approximately 1980s for peace

2011-08-29T13:26:00.000-07:00

When I was a kid, on the streets of Voronezh, USSR, where I lived, it was no advertising, but a lot of soviet agitation placards. Many of them were for peace. I remember a popular slogan of that time "Peace to world". Another popular russian set expression of 1980s-90s was "fight for peace".

In this post you can see some of the Soviet Union placards relating to the theme of peace.

First USSR placard carries the slogan "Labour will be a lord of world". The placard illustrates the essence of the 1st decrees of the Bolshevik's power. These decrees were adopted after the October Revolution in 1917.

The second placard was made in 1985 to the anniversary of our victory in the Great Patriotic war, as we call Second World war. It's slogan is "We had defended peace in a battle".

I think, that the next USSR placard have illustrated a call to destroy nuclear warheads.

The last placard with the child I like most of all. It was not typical. I can't remember placards like this.

USSR artefacts: placards of the Communist Party of the 1980s

2011-08-22T10:25:00.000-07:00

First 3 of these placards of the Soviet Union are devoted to the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party, which was in 1986. The placards were made in 1986-1990.

1st placard depicting Vladimir Lenin.


Soviet placard of the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party with V.Lenin

See also a badge, depicting Vladimir Lenin, issued to the delegates of the 27th Congress. The functionaries of KPSS wore such a badges on the lapel of the suit.

Second placard has the big word "KPSS", a short version of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Third photo depicting a placard with the words "XXVII Congress of KPSS" at the building of the Historical Museum, which is situated in the Red Square, in the centre of Moscow.

On the next placard there is a strange slogan "Party is an immortality of our business!" I don't think that it makes sense. Probably, it is a quotation from a speech of a KPSS leader like Leonid Brezhnev taking out of context.

A main task for soviet people was to work and to fulfil a plan of a previous Congress of the USSR Communist Party. On the working places was a visual agitation for fulfilment of the plan. A part of a project of such agitation in a workshop you can see below. The slogan of it is 'Our achievements in the work to XXVII Congress of the Communist Party.' Below the slogan there are a photo of a brigade and a report that this brigade have fulfilled a plan of work for a year. It is a Soviet Union placard of 1980s.

The photos are from the russian book of S.Smirnov "A font in the visual agitation".

These USSR placards have remind me an old soviet anecdote, that I was told by a classmate then I was a schoolgirl. The action takes place in USSR. A Communist Party lecturer comes to a soviet town for agitation. The bill of his lecture is "A lecture about KPSS". Nobody comes. Then they write another bill "A lecture about 3 kinds of love". /* I should remind, that in the USSR press it was used a phrase "there is no sex in our country" :-() */ After the second bill the house is full. The lecturer goes to scene and begins: "My lecture is about 3 kinds of love. 1st kind of love is love between a man and a woman. You all know about it. The 2nd kind of love is parents' love. This kind of love is also well-known. And the 3rd kind of love is love to our dear Communist Party. Now I'm going to talk about it..."

Antique women's pendants of Kievan Rus'

2011-07-23T04:10:00.000-07:00

In this photo you can see an ancient russian woman's gold pendants. It had been made in XIIth century in Kievan Rus'.Such a ring-pendant was named kolt. Kolt is an old russian women's empty pendant. Pairs of kolts had been suspended to the headdress (kokoshnik) from the both sides. Woman had worn 3 pendants on each temple.

According to another origin, 2 kolts could hung down from the both sides of kokoshnik on the ribbons.You can see this variant on the reconstruction of the russian woman's headdress of XIIth century.

A form of kolt was depended on a Slavic tribe. You can see kolts of different Slavic tribes below. It were made from silver in XI-XII centuries.

How men in Moscow state looks in the XV-XVII centuries?

2011-07-19T11:48:00.000-07:00

You can read about Moscow state in Wikipedia, articles Grand Duchy of Moscow and the next one Tsardom of Russia.

Russian men of this period wore shirts and pants like in Kievan Rus. Over the shirt they wore a kind of clothes named zipun. You can see zipun on the left of the 1st image.
Kaftan had been worn over the zipun. You can see two models of kaftan in the image (in the center and on the right).

Russian men also often wore fur coats. In the north of Russia climate is cold, so all the men worn fur coats. But boyars and noblemen sometimes wore fur coats in the summer too.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

A look at Russian feudal woman of X-XIV centuries

2011-07-11T02:09:00.000-07:00

Last time I have written about a costume of Russian common women in X-XIV centuries. And now it's time to see clothes of Russian feudal women of the same period.You can see the costumes of Russian noble women in X-XIV centuries in the picture.

Noble women wore shirts as well as common women. Besides it Russian feudal women wore models of clothes, which had come from Byzantine Empire: tunics, draping cloaks.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

How Russian common women in X-XIV centuries looked?

2011-07-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

Image 1.

In X-XIV centuries Russian common women wore long shirts, which was decorated by an embroidery or an application of a strip of a decorative fabric. The shirts were made from white linen or coloured silk. The shirts had been wearing with the waistband.

Over the shirt Russian women wore a skirt. The skirts were like in the image above. This ancient Russian skirt was named poneva. It was often made from chequered or diamond-shaped cotton fabric (image 1).

Image 2.

In the image 2 you can see an ancient russian women outerwear. It was named zapona and made from linen.

Image 3.

In the image 3 you can see another ancient russian women outerwear. This shorter model of outwear is named nagrudnic.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

Next post is about a costume of Russian noble woman of X-XIV centuries.

How Russian fighting men in X-XIV centuries looked?

2011-07-05T13:02:00.000-07:00

In this picture you can see Russian fighting men (soldiers) of X-XIV centuries. They wore a short chain armour over a clothes. The chain armour had slits on each side.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

A look at Russian peasant of X-XIV centuries

2011-07-04T13:31:00.000-07:00

In this image you can see a Russian peasant of X-XIV centuries. He had worn a shirt (it had named in Russian rubaha) and pants (had named porti). The main colour of the suit's fabric was always bright. Ancient Russians had worn gauntlets and a bag at the belt. This bag had named kalita.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

A look at Russian prince and his closes, XI century

2011-07-04T10:21:00.000-07:00

In the middle of IX century Russia had accepted Christianity from Byzantine Empire. At the XI century Kievan Rus (Kievan Russia), also known as Ancient Russian state, was a strong country. We have already looked at the prince of Kievan Rus of this period. And here you can see clothes, that had been wearing only by prince and his closes feudal lords. These feudal lords had wearing cloaks corzno (looks like cloaks of Byzantine) and tunics made from expensive Byzantine fabric.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

Russian ornamental patterns of X-XIV centuries

2011-07-04T08:57:00.000-07:00

Here you can see Russian ornamental patterns of X-XIV centuries. These patterns had been pictured on fabric. The colour of a background was brown Holland. The colour of a pattern was most often cyan, green or cinnabar. The patterns often were decorated by pearls. The most widespread Russian ornamental patterns had contained geometrical elements. Some of these patterns you can see above.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of N. Kaminskaya.

A look at prince Svyatoslav's family, XI centuary

2011-06-29T01:50:00.000-07:00

In the book of N. Kaminskaya "The history of a costume (suit)" I have red about the Russian costumes of X-XIV centuries. In the book I have found this drawing. It is from the handwritten book "Izbornik of Svyatoslav" which had been written at 1073 for Svyatoslav, a prince of Kiev. At the drawing there is prince Svyatoslav and his family.

The prince is wearing green caftan (also named svita), blue cloak corzno, round hat with the fur and green boots made from morocco (a kind of leather).

You can also look at the top feudal lords of Kievan Rus'.
Kievan Rus' in Wikipedia.

Blouse from the pavlovskiy headkerchief, 1988

2011-06-22T02:15:00.000-07:00

I have a russian magazine (album of models) "The knitting", which was published in 1988 by G. Ilina. In this magazine I have found this original blouse. It is made from the fabric of the pavlovskiy headkerchief and decorated by knitting strip (lace).

Russian women don't really wear such blouses.

The pavlovskiy headkerchief is also known as pavloposadskiy headkerchief. It is a name for a headkerchief made in the town Pavlovskiy Posad in the Moscow area. The handkerchiefs with the tradition colourful printed ornament are made there from 1860-1880.

You can see some of the pavlovskiy handkerchiefs here http://pavlovoposadskie-platki.ru/.

P.S. Today, June 29, I have seen on the street of Voronezh this advertising of pavlovskiy handkerchiefs on the side of a fixed-run taxi.

Costume in russian style from Paul Poiret

2011-06-21T09:02:00.000-07:00

Paul Poiret is a famous French fashion designer of the beginning of the XX century. He is noted for many innovations in costumes. So, he had designed models of clothes by the colourful sketches of Russian painter Leon Baxt for the Russian ballets of Dyagilev's troupe (Russian Seasons in Paris).

In 1911-1912 Paul Poiret was travelled Russia. Under the influence of this trip he has made an original costume. You can see it on the draw. It is a dress from brown Holland named "Kazan" and a winter fur coat in style of Russian fur coat.

(Kazan is a city in Russian Federation, a capital of Tatarstan.)