Show Russian Women Not Worried About Fashions Only Coarse Materials Issued No Stylebooks Available Vanities Not Considered in Keeping With Proletarian Simplicity MOSCOW March 5 What p P What the well dressed cd woman oman will wear has lit littie little lit lit- tIe tle 1 If any meaning as a R. phrase in present day Soviet SO Ru Russia la Patterns and materials for making gowns of ot the latest st style le arc not generally gen sen- permitted In the country Such vanities are arc considered not In keeping with proletarian simplicity and the serious work of carrying out the five yeas l e car plan The occasional Russian flapper is isable isable able now and then to bootleg a stylebook from Berlin and points west But the stylebooks dont don't do much good for the materials are lacking GAPE AT T FOREIGNERS When a foreign woman arrives she Is almost mobbed on the streets by gaping women Actresses s and wives ives of government officials manage somehow to know about styles and obtain the materials from abroad But the average Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian woman has almost given up any attempt at style Infrequently she gets an order on a a. government or cooperative c shop for some ex extremely extremely ex- ex plain goods wherewith to tomake tomake tomake make a dress But there arc no silks or satins cUns Coarse cotton stockings the plainest shoes and dresses that have seen better days make up her wardrobe Old shawls serve ser in place of ot hats Th The Soviet male is far from being a Beau Brummell SUITS OF COTTON A worker gets an order for a pair of shoes and a suit of or clothes once a year The clothes are of ot the plainest plain plain- est cotton and wool material what America knows as hand me hand me And the they look it At diplomatic affairs and government govern govern- ment receptions no Russian wears full dress or even a dinner jacket An American correspondent who at attended attended attended at- at tended a function at one of the big hotels wearing a n dinner jacket hid in ina a corner comer most of the evening to keep from rom being the life of oC the party Shopping for clothes is not for foreigners in Russia They can buy nothing Consequently when the foreigners foreigner's foreigners foreigner's for for- I eigners eigner's clothes wear out he must get a visa from the foreign office and go outside the country to re re- re stock j |