The Failed Soviet Rival to the Flapper Dress – The Soviet masses did not respond well to ‘prozodezhda,’ a 1920s experiment that sought to revolutionize dress
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Soviet Union
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Идеал (Ideal) confectionery company ad, 1927 assuming they didn’t have permission to take Hershey’s famous artwork
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Fitness Parade on Red Square by Georgi Zelma, 1935
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Orehovo, USSR, 1976by Masha Ivashintsova
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Soviet poster advertising a circus performance – 4 Giovanni 4 – Air flight (trapeze act) under the circus dome. Printed by the State Circus Department GosTsirk in Ukraine in 1929. […]
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Soviet Union orphanage
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Passover 1934, Kibbutz Chaim, Panevezys, Lithuania
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sporty Soviet ladies
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a Varvara Stepanova dress from 1923 reconstructed and photographed in 1985
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students in sports clothing designed by Varvara Stepanova the students take part in a performance of 1924’s An Evening of the Book, spelling out ‘intermission’ on their backs