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Show Russia Samples U.S. Goods Wheat? Yum Cheesecake? JJok MOSCOW (AP) Western girls' knees are raising eyebrows in Moscow. O r. It's not just the Russian women who are complaining. The men are, too. THE TROUBLE centers on a clash of customs: In the Soviet Union it is considered ' :ent for a woman to show her knees. nt ' Thus you never or almost never see a Russian woman cross her legs in public ' A YOUNG ENGLISH girl who relaxed while sitting in a Moscow subway train 'causht fmm a well-covered Soviet matron. gm a sW. i . v.V.'v . v. ft, N " i M !: i 7 ! I i Lx'; !r-v' m i The Russian woman leaned forward for-ward in her seat and told the girl, who was sitting opposite, "Un-;ross "Un-;ross your legs it is not decent to sit like that." The girl did as she was told. "It's absurd," she said later. "You see women sprawled with their legs apart most undignified and unladylike by our standards and yet they object if you show a litttle knee." The Russians have a passion for concealment yet it has its contradictions. con-tradictions. Russian women think nothing of going to the beach clad in panties and bra. TO PREVENT clashes with Soviet Sov-iet sensitivities, diplomats have given their female employes some advice on what not to wear in Moscow. Mos-cow. Definitely out are very bright woolen stockings, tights and ski pants. Tights and ski pants are too revealing, Russians think. Another Western girl working here went for a walk wearing bright red woolen stockings. She had brought them from England especially for the Russian winter. Conventional USSR legs, right, show why current trends' cause controversy over capitalist skirt ' |