Show wear silk shorts as farm uniform dame fashion wreal ed havoc tor for a time in the lives of russian village women the trouble all began after the war when it became fashionable for women to a ear short skirts that fashion also became prevalent in the Ius 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 skirts and women in the russian villages suffered for a long time from this lack of information for no mat ter how they sat in the short skirts the lace of the long panta lettes pro traded this crying need of russian worn wom en was met by the operatives cooperatives which turned out an infinite quantity of silk sl orts hence silk shorts for women were sent to the most remote russian villages f it so happened that those shorts arrived in the co operative stores at the same time is the tractors which were sent to the collective farms 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 trac tors now the gling operating the tractors on collective farms wear only silk shorts without any skirts at all thus going tar far beyond all european and american skirt reductions and creating their own collective farm fashion we gasp to think what in hap pen to a shipload ot of eugenie hats boris in the nation |