FashionEast. The Ghost that Roamed Eastern Europe
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The book of Jurdge Bartlett is dedicated to the phenomenon of "socialist fashion". Fashion can indeed be called a ghost that terrified the Soviet state. The ephemeral, always incomplete and elusive phenomenon constituted a serious threat to the values of socialism - stability, lack of change and predictability. Having originated in the era of Stalinism, this phenomenon lasted until the end of the 1980s in the Soviet Union and in a number of Eastern European countries, which were part of the social blister. For all its exclusivity, this was by no means that fundamentally new style, about which constructivists dreamed in the early 1920s. On the contrary, the socialist fashion has officially focused on traditional aesthetics and served conservative tender stereotypes. Bartlett traces the history of the phenomenon - from its origin in the era of the collapse of the Bolshevik utopian dream to the heyday in the Eastern European countries with the advent of the Communists to power in 1948 and the gradual sunset in the last decades of the existence of the socialist system.
In the focus of the Bartlett research - Vestimental experiments of constructivists, early Bolshevik criticism of fashion as a bourgeois phenomenon, returning to the ideals of traditional femininity in the Stalinist era, institutionalization of fashion and the formation of an ideological construct of the "official socialist costume" (in the almost complete absence of any decent Clothes on store shelves), festivals and contests designed to maintain the myth of the existence of socialist fashion, as well as unofficial fashionable practices, which a man of the Age of Deficiency era was forced to resort to
In the focus of the Bartlett research - Vestimental experiments of constructivists, early Bolshevik criticism of fashion as a bourgeois phenomenon, returning to the ideals of traditional femininity in the Stalinist era, institutionalization of fashion and the formation of an ideological construct of the "official socialist costume" (in the almost complete absence of any decent Clothes on store shelves), festivals and contests designed to maintain the myth of the existence of socialist fashion, as well as unofficial fashionable practices, which a man of the Age of Deficiency era was forced to resort to
Author:
Author:Бартлетт Джурджа
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Medical Books
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86793-922-9
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