How have the clothes, accessories, items and things used. Curious to look into the story, is not it?.

In the first years of Soviet power, the state practically did not produce underwear for women.. The ladies wore shirts and pantaloons, stored up as a dowry even before the revolution. Elegant combinations, belts and corsets were sewed on foreign patterns only in private workshops or on individual orders in the atelier of "Moskvosweya" and "Leningrad.org". Beautiful underwear was considered ugly bourgeois, and from the mid-20s knitted T-shirts, T-shirts and sports pants flew onto the crest of fashion.

And soon they became the embodiment of the idea of ??gender equality.. Who could not get a beautiful underwear, was forced to turn to the dressmakers. There were queues to the owners of foreign patterns of bras or combinations.

Guarding the ass.

Post-war fashion for underwear, too, gave military uniforms. The most common men's underwear of the time - the Chinese "Friendship" underpants of soft blue color, with a pile and two buttons on the codpiece..

To get them was considered a great success, because in winter, the Chinese "Friendship" very successfully saved the ass from the cold. At that time, warm trousers with a pile were worn and women, as a rule, of the same color: grandmothers, mothers and daughters dressed up in exactly the same pants — pink, purple or light green..

Multifunctional tights.

With the onset of the Khrushchev thaw, the fashion for underwear in the USSR changed. “Intimate” goods were brought from the GDR and Poland to the country, but this was not available to ordinary women.. In the fight against the total shortage of underwear women showed miracles of ingenuity. In the knitting studio masterfully raised loops on old pantyhose and sewed panties from combinations. From coarse calico underpants cut "peignoirs". And multi-colored men's pants without any tricks became girl shorts!.

Even having fulfilled its direct function, Soviet linen continued to serve its owners for a long time.. Men's long pants, having gone a long way, turned into floorcloths, from old cowards and bras knitted floor mats for the hallways, made of ragged golf toys for children.

But, perhaps, the most functional subject of the women's toilet turned out to be nylon tights.. They were silenced with windows for the winter, jammed through them, in order to get rid of the bones, they kept onions in them so that he would not “choke”.

Yves Montand is raging.

In 1956, the famous French singer, one of the first after the fall of the Iron Curtain, gave concerts in Moscow. Later, in his memoirs, he recalled: “Most of all during my visit to the USSR I was shocked by the counter with women's underwear in one of Moscow department stores”.

Montana even purchased several warm female pantaloons with a woolly blue color. The exhibition of similar Soviet linen, arranged by him in Paris, is still remembered by the French beau monde.

Soviet underwear is a whole era. Current women of fashion make fun of the bras and panties of their mothers and grandmothers, sincerely not understanding how it could be worn. Grandmothers also consider ladies' pantaloons with a pile with tears in their eyes.. They probably remember how warm and comfortable they were.

Smooth, Simplified.

More than one generation of boys in the USSR grew up in family shorts, which the people simply called “family workers”.

In most families of that time, men regarded this piece of toilet not just an intimate thing, but also familiar household clothes, which were worn along with a T-shirt. And thanks to the elastic one size pants can be worn by the whole family.. The appearance of family pants is due to the shape of the athletes of the 1920s – 30s, similar to shorts (boxers, soccer players, and. According to the nomenclature of garment production of this time, they were listed as “smooth, simplified panties”.

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