Russian fashion: from early 20th century to the present day

Just like literature, art and music, clothes and accessories reflect the era in which they were made. RIA Novosti has collected a selection of photos showing Russian fashion through the ages.

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© RIA Novosti . Sergei Subbotin

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Just like literature, art and music, clothes and accessories reflect the era in which they were made. RIA Novosti has collected a selection of photos showing Russian fashion through the ages. Young Russian women entered the 20th century wearing elegant hats, fur-lined jerkins and muffs.

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© RIA Novosti . B. Vdovenko

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In the 1930s, women had no time to worry about fashion; they had a country to re-build after the devastation of World War I. Men’s shirts, ties and pullovers were the most practical option.

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© RIA Novosti . Anatoli Garanin

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Men celebrated World War II Victory Day in double-breasted jackets and broad trousers. Women had their hair done in curls and wore raglan sleeves.

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© RIA Novosti . D. Kozlov

In 1950s, fashionable young Soviet women wore plisse skirts and watches with golden bracelets.

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© RIA Novosti . Yakov Berliner

Men wore broad trousers with turn-ups and collared shirts.

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© RIA Novosti . Boris Kaufman

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The look of the ‘60s was knee-length dresses with bright hems and pointed shoes with kitten heels.

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© RIA Novosti . N. Rahmanov

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By the late 1960s shoes with bows had also come into fashion.

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© RIA Novosti . Fred Grinberg

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In the early 1970s, women began wearing shorter skirts.

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© RIA Novosti . E. Kotlyakov

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Jeans arrived in the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s. Tight fitting shirts were all the rave.

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© RIA Novosti . Fred Grinberg

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Big glasses and platform shoes entered Soviet fashion in the early 1980s. They made good accessories to safari dresses, which were worn over a jersey.

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© RIA Novosti . Yuri Kaver

The mid 1980s were a time for plastic jewelry and banana trousers, bought on the black markets.

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The mini skirt became an icon of the late 1980s.

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© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Rodionov

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Stripes and spots got big in the early 1990s.

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© RIA Novosti . B. Kosarev

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Every fashionable Russian girl in the mid-1990s had a stone-washed denim skirt.

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© RIA Novosti . Dmitri Korobeynikov

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Floaty fabrics had a big impact on women’s summer fashion at the turn of the century.

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© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin

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Goths made their own fashion sub-group in the early 2000s.

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© RIA Novosti . Mikhail Beznosov

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Today’s fashion is a fashion of contrasts. This Muscovite combines boots with a tank top.