It wasn’t all grey and drab behind the Iron Curtain. In the 1960s Western fashion slowly crept through (or under) the borders – all illegal, of course.
In 1965, the Moscow House of Fashion welcomed a budding
fashion designer, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who largely defined the late Soviet and
perestroika trends of bright, fashionable clothing. He was interested in
foreign fashion trends and tried to adapt them to the domestic market in his
own original style.
Bright colours, rigid geometric silhouettes and miniskirts (which were, after all, much more modest than their Western originals).
Hand-knitted items made from bright yarn are becoming
extremely popular: jackets, skirts, dresses, shawls and even trouser suits.
And as berets go, this one pictured here is also for Western
standards pretty extravagant.
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