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Show Wear Silk Shorts as Farm "Uniform" Dame Fashion wreaked havoc for a time in the lives of Russian village women. The trouble all began after the war when It became fashionable for women to wear short skirts. That fashion also became prevalent in the Russian villages, bringing sorrow to the women. The women were sad because the fashion magazines told about short skirts, but told nothing about what should be worn underneath these skirt's. And women in the Russian villages suffered for a long time from this lack of information, for no matter mat-ter how they sat in the short skirts, the lace of the long pantalettes protruded. pro-truded. This crying need of Russian women wom-en was met by the , co-operatives, which turned out an infinite quantity of silk shorts. Hence silk shorts for women were sent to the most remote Russian villages. It so happened that those shorts arrived in the co-operative stores at the same time as the tractors which were sent to the collective farms. Nobody No-body knows who originated the idea, but somehow it was decided that these silk shorts were to go with the tractors; they became the uniform for the women who operated the tractors. trac-tors. Now the girls operating the tractors or. collective farms wear only silk shorts, without any skirts at all, thus going far beyond all European and American skirt reductions and creating their own collective farm fashion. We gasp to think what might happen hap-pen to a shipload of Eugenie hats. Boris Pilnyak in the Nation. |
