What kind of jeans were worn in the USSR? Blue dream: jeans in the USSR (11 photos) Jeans from the 80s
We may not remember our first kiss, but we all remember our first jeans.My Generation
Cultural code, general history - the movie "Four Tank Men and a Dog", Venus from Shocking Blue, and rubbing jeans.
Movies were watched every year in primary school, music, although not in original vinyl, was available in sound recordings, and only rubbing jeans remained a blue dream. And this dream came true!
It was more than just clothes. It was a lifestyle, a pass to the advanced caste. A man in jeans could not be a simple, gray creature. They changed people, changed attitudes towards them. Today it is not that funny, but rather, it is hardly understandable to those who do not belong to my generation.
Of course, people of the same generation were not the same. Among them were, as they would say today, “majors,” metrosexuals. They were ready to sell their souls to the devil for fashionable imported clothes.
Such guys were then called “dodik”, and they often became objects of social hatred on the part of the district barefoot. A distinctive feature of our small town was that these conflicts were not global, most of us were something in between - we drank fruit and berries with the punks, but at the first opportunity we bought the coveted jeans.
I remember very well my first Wrangler, bought in 1982 at Beryozka for 160 rubles (this is a good, bargain price)
Here it is necessary to explain that the previous Wrangler was noticeably different from the current one. At that time, the Wrangler was rated on a par with Lewis and Lee, and together they represented the big three, like the heroes from Vasnetsov’s painting.
In those days, Wrangler belonged to the parent company with a hundred-year tradition of manufacturing high-quality clothing BLUE BELL, and was sewn either in the USA or in Malta (with the same quality)
No Southeast Asia!
A distinctive feature of all Wranglers was denim with a special structure - herringbone. And of course, impeccable quality.
70s, Taganrog. In principle, there are no comfortable clothes in stores, let alone jeans!
Moscow is another matter! Everything was brought from there. These were the Bulgarian pseudo-jeans “Rila”, these were the Polish “Odra” and of course the Indian “Miltons”.
Moreover, there were two types of Miltons. The ones with a tiger on the leather jacket are a little cooler, the ones with an elephant are weaker. It must be said that all jeans were conditionally divided into two large groups - rubbing and non-rubbing. Those who do not rub were also sometimes called Texans. Naturally, all the jeans listed above were Texans, i.e. didn't "rub". The inquisitive minds of Soviet youth were looking for a way out of such a difficult situation. These same Texas paints could be bleached in bleach, and then painted with a miracle of indigo paint. The paint recipe is simple - blue gouache, PVA glue, and all this is boiled and rinsed in the boiling water) It’s better not to talk about the results.
Of course, I write about life in the Soviet province, about Western-oriented youth and teenagers of the late 70s and early 80s. Naturally, at that time there were people, especially in the capitals, who calmly bought the most branded Levi's models, popular in those days - 646, 684, for 250-300 rubles, and were not even aware of all kinds of Bulgarian-Indian surrogates.
But by the beginning of the 80s, and we became older and the Soviet Union became more liberal, Indian friction jeans “Avis” appeared in Moscow. Of course, they were immediately scattered by those communados, and later they appeared among black marketeers.
But then in Moscow. And in Taganrog there was no talk of buying in a store. Only speculators. The price varied from 160 to 270 rubles.
It was a wonderful, excellent quality classic - Wrangler, Lee, Levis, and joining them, appearing like a jack-in-the-box, Montana.
Perhaps Montana squeezed out its competitors; it was transported en masse by sailors from Mediterranean countries
Of course, many were attracted by the bright details - zippers on the pockets, triple stitching, an eagle label, and original rivets...
In general, during this period, in the early 80s, jeans of a wide variety of models appeared en masse, usually of German-Italian origin.
They were of good quality, although they were inferior to the American classics, but they diversified with all sorts of beauties - an American flag, an unusual shape of pockets.
I am sure that not everyone will remember these brands that were most popular at that time: Jordans, Super Perrys, Rifle, Riorda, Genesis, Ledex, Super Pennis, Colorado...
Jordans flashed across the fashionable Soviet horizon of the 80s like a bright comet, and disappeared...
All this was imported either from advanced Moscow and Leningrad, or was bought at the port from sailors. I remember very well how we were waiting for the ship to arrive and climbing over the fence into the port. But there were also their resellers and intermediaries. They worked in the port as dockers, or anyone else, and had the right and opportunity for priority access.
And then, the very next day, the happy owners of brand new Super Perrys appeared
Well, or like this
Sometimes I came across Spanish "Luis" ones. By the way, they were of good quality and could compare with the Big Three jeans
I think all these jeans owe such popularity to the fashion in Italy at that time. This allowed the “new wave” to supplant the classics.
In addition, it was at this time that the so-called "bananas", loose-fitting jeans, tapering at the bottom, usually with patch pockets at the knees.
Cord jeans were also popular (this is such small corduroy)
What about the Soviet light industry? Didn’t you really make any attempts to satisfy such mega-demand? I did! And it’s impossible to remember this without laughing!))
Back in the 70s, some factory began to produce... some kind of pornography from ordinary trouser fabric, cut like jeans. And the abrasion was imitated with the help of painted dots and specks. I wish I could find such an exhibit now!)
Later, real Soviet-made friction jeans appeared. And they were called VNESHPOSYLTORG!!!)))
The label said VPT.
There were also jeans called “Tver”. They were made from Indian jeans and tended to fade, which was cool, but in terms of quality and image they could not become a worthy alternative to branded jeans))
It is curious that the design on the back pocket, imitating Levisovsky, was later replaced... in such a funny way)
And in the year 83-84, normal branded jeans appeared in Taganrog, in a store. In exchange for rags and waste paper. These were the Belgian "Forwest" and the "Texis" produced in West Berlin.
They were sold in TUM on the 3rd floor, so as not to tease the gentle souls of the Soviet people, and rags had to be handed over either in the glass “Stimul”, which is on Gogolevsky, or in the office on Dzerzhinka, in the Chugunka area)
I had this Texas
In the mid-80s, half the city went to F.U.S, they were also sold in exchange for recyclable materials.
Although, of course, these coupons could simply be bought, and 100-ruble jeans cost 20 rubles more
By the way, they came with a strap.
And then perestroika began, and normal jeans disappeared. The country was overwhelmed by a wave of cheap Turkish consumer goods ((
And it’s scary to think that several decades have passed since then. Jeans have become what they should be. Regular everyday casual clothing. Most people don't hesitate to buy jeans made in China or Vietnam in a store, not even realizing that they often have little in common with real jeans...
Real, good quality jeans can still be bought today. In the USA they sell jeans that are not made in Asia, and not even in Mexico, but in the USA, they are somewhat more expensive, the Japanese make good jeans, replicas of old classic models - salvage from “raw” denim. Often, just like before, you can put them in a corner overnight)
It's hard to resist buying new jeans, remembering what they used to mean to us. I definitely have more than 20 of them, although usually no more than a dozen are in use.
In search of the lost...)
The first jeans were invented in 1873: Levi Strauss wanted to create the toughest work trousers, but he had no idea that decades later they would become classics. The first style for women appeared much later - in 1934, and by the 1960s, jeans gained such popularity that they replaced skirts from the wardrobe.
Each decade had its own distinctive style, and what's surprising is that any of them are fashionable right now!
1960s: bell bottoms
Bell-bottom jeans are the most recognizable element of the hippie style, and for good reason: the durable fabric of the trousers protected young activists both from the police at protests and from mud and rain at the Woodstock music festival. The style icon of those times was the 17-year-old British model Twiggy. Her thin, boyish figure and short hair defied mature feminine beauty and reflected the rebellious spirit of the decade.
- Flared jeans have returned to fashion over the years and now. But the style has not changed since the distant 60s: mid-rise trousers should fit tightly around the hips, and flares should start strictly from the knee.
1970s: pipes
In the 70s, jeans gained mass popularity and migrated from the wardrobe of hippies to good girls and housewives. Jeans have proven their comfort and versatility: they were worn for a walk, grocery shopping and even to school. But the style has changed radically - the widest possible trouser legs, expanding straight from the hip, have come into fashion. Perhaps it’s all about roller skates, the peak of which became popular in the 70s.
Another distinctive feature of those times was all kinds of decorations on the side seams: rhinestones, rivets, embroidery.
- Tube jeans have come back into fashion, but in a slightly different design - a cropped culotte style.
1980s: dumplings
Wild bouffant, hoop earrings, pink lipstick and jeans - this is what all women of the 80s aspired to, looking at their style icon - Madonna. In the new decade, jeans have changed noticeably: instead of wide flares - narrower “bananas”, instead of an even color - spotted boiled jeans. The fit has become higher: it has shifted from the hips to the waist. But the main thing that distinguished fashionable jeans was the bright designer label. For the first time, women began to pay attention to the label and dreamed of adding Calvin Klein or Guess jeans to their wardrobe.
- We are no longer so obsessed with labels and cleverly combine expensive and affordable items in one set. But the look from the 80s is more relevant than ever: choose either loose-fitting mom-jeans or tight skinnies.
1990s: grunge
In the 90s, fashion was set not by designers, but by musicians. Teenagers were inspired by rock bands from the top of the charts: Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Guns N'Roses. The grunge style came into fashion, which means that jeans also changed: they became baggier, . Rolled up legs completed the deliberately disheveled look. In addition to the jeans themselves, other denim clothing also came into fashion: overalls, jackets, shirts and skirts.
- You will be surprised, but the modern fashion wardrobe consists almost entirely of echoes of the 90s: you probably have boyfriend jeans, a denim shirt, and maybe even a jumpsuit.
2000s: Low-slung
Jeans changed dramatically at the turn of the millennium: after the high-waisted styles of the 80s and 90s, designers brought extra low-rise hips onto the catwalks. The trend was supported by pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, exposing their ideal bodies in each video.
- They say that fashion comes back 20 years later. While low rise is not in favor, we do not recommend getting rid of jeans that are on the verge of decency, everything will come back!
2010s: skinny
The current decade has given us a completely new style of jeans - skinny jeans that highlight all the curves of the figure. Jeggings are also in fashion - super-stretchy leggings made of thin denim. These trousers are versatile and look great.
You can say whatever you want about Soviet trade and the powerful, but very light industry. But let's remember the story with jeans... It is unlikely that anyone from today's generation will be able to understand what we are talking about. But each of those who were born in the 50-70s will immediately understand what this is about.
Jeans burst into our country in 1957 - then the World Festival of Youth and Students in the USSR lifted the Iron Curtain. It was at that time that numerous overseas guests left in Moscow not only babies of various skin colors, but also the fashion for jeans.
However, the real denim boom was still far away - only the lucky few could get their hands on the coveted trousers: actors, diplomats, athletes, as well as sailors and flight attendants.
On top of everything else, imported denim was declared an ideological weapon of decaying capitalism. On par with rock and roll and the Voice of America! Therefore, jeans were not sold in regular stores or markets. They could only be bought from black marketeers, small speculators who resold them at exorbitant prices. For which they sometimes got paid to the fullest.
In 1960, speculators Rokotov and Faibyshenko received capital punishment in a case that also involved trading in jeans. The last words that popular rumor put into the mouths of those punished sounded symbolic: “Still, jeans are the best clothes.”
The fact is that jeans in the USSR were not just fashionable pants, they meant EVERYTHING. That is, everything else you had could very well be completely ordinary, but if you had jeans (only necessarily “branded”), then you were already at the peak of fashion. And the girls looked at you more than at your friends. And you felt yourself more beautiful, and luckier, and even smarter than others.
Jeans were a true standard of fashion. Moreover, it cannot be said that this fashion was distinguished by at least some variety. The jeans had to meet several requirements: they had to “stand up”, it was possible to get into them only with soap, the color of the jeans was exclusively blue.
The most important property of branded jeans of those years was that “they had to rub.” Simply put, the distinguishing feature of high-quality jeans dyed blue with indigo dye was considered by the citizens of the USSR to be their ability to be wiped clean. That is, the most fashionable Levis and Montanas were bound to lose their original blue color and take on the appearance of pants worn for a long time and carelessly.
By the way, whether the pants were “wipeable” or not was checked at the time of purchase very simply - with a drooled match. They rubbed it over the denim. A blue match meant that the pants were “okay.” The fact is that instead of a real “company” they tried to slip us something incomprehensible: some kind of Bulgarian trousers of the “Rila” brand, Polish, Yugoslav, Indian...
Once upon a time, even by a special resolution of the Council of Ministers in Moscow, at the “work clothes” factory, they began producing their own jeans. But, even if sometimes both the cut and the fabric of such pants had something in common with jeans, they still could not even approximately fit what we meant by this concept - they did not rub! The paint on the fabric held up remarkably well and did not want to disappear either after experiments with “Whiteness”, or even after some desperate daredevils tried to rub it off with red (precisely red!) brick.
There was a story that in order to produce Soviet jeans, all that was needed was the corresponding GOST. Allegedly, it was impossible to produce trousers that were painted with a relatively unstable dye, but it’s hard to believe.
But it was considered real chic to have “gins” (sometimes they were called that way) from three companies: “Levis”, “Wrangler”, “Lee”. Moreover, it was possible to distinguish them from each other only if you carefully examined what kind of label was on the back right pocket of the happy owner of such fashionable pants?
But true connoisseurs knew the color of the labels, the color of the threads, and where the rivets were on which brand. Branded pants were aged artificially. There was no time to wait for the jeans to age on their own, so they added extra years right at home. Bricks, pumice and wooden blocks were used.
Of course, there were a dozen other companies that were even more difficult to get, something like Montana, Wild Cat or something even more exotic (Jordan, Super-Jordan and Silver Dollar). They were considered exotic precisely because they were more decorated, and therefore were often perceived more as feminine. But a real man had to get himself something from the already mentioned trinity.
By the way, about “getting it” - it was not so easy to do. First of all, I needed money for jeans, especially branded ones. And their cost reached 200-300 rubles, which is even more than the average monthly salary.
In order to beg that kind of money from their parents, the C grade students promised to finish the year without C grades, and the excellent students promised to finish the music school without B grades. Those who were more conscientious, or who could not get that kind of money at home, worked in the summer at vegetable stores, harvesting strawberries and other simple jobs that schoolchildren were allowed to do.
Of course, the cost varied in different cities. So in port cities you could buy the same “Lees” from sailors for a hundred and twenty. But usually everything was bought up by black market wholesalers. And then do the math yourself - transport, sales, risk, and so on. That's why we had to look for 180-200 rubles.
But even if you found the money, then after that you had to find the jeans themselves! And it's not that simple. It’s only in bad movies that the black marketeers themselves almost crowd around the potential buyer. In reality, they could have surrounded such a crowd only in order to deceive.
For example, after such a house purchase, it could turn out that for some reason you bought only one pant leg, even though you were considering exactly two (a very popular method of deception). Therefore, if a transaction took place between strangers, both were afraid.
Not only were they difficult to buy, but also to find pants in your size. Therefore, they grabbed what they had: if they were long, they hemmed them, if they were small, they stretched them. I heard that in order to fit into jeans two sizes smaller, girls worked wonders. “Armed” with soap and faithful friends, they climbed into the bathtub, lathered themselves and, at the cost of incredible effort, pulled them on themselves. Then they wore it without taking it off, and after a couple of days the long-suffering trousers fit like a glove.
Yes, they didn’t worry about the shortage - whatever jeans they could get, those were the ones they wore.
But after you became the owner of such pants, you began to feel like the coolest person in the world. Even though there was no such thing as “cool” back then. And even if you pulled on your jeans only with the help of two friends (this has happened), then all the same, both they and you were the best in the world in them! Because these were your first jeans.
But buying the “right” jeans is not everything. I don’t know how, where, but it was customary for us to sew half a copper “zipper” along the bottom of each trouser leg. The result was a short copper fringe at the bottom. This was considered the “finishing touch” - and seemed to prevent the pants from fraying.
In the 1980s, denim jeans came into fashion. You've never even heard of these pants in stores. But Soviet citizens invented a thousand recipes for making new items.
To make some Indian jeans look like a fashionable “varenka”, they were boiled with bleach, tied with rubber bands to create a pattern, or tied in a knot, beaten with white bricks, rubbed with pumice, boiled with soda and bleach, and then washed in the washing machine together. with rocks.
What about the state? This is not to say that it was completely unaware of the problem. I noticed.
And they even reacted in their own way - they fought. For example, students wearing jeans were not allowed into school. In government agencies, personnel departments, especially the “first departments,” looked askance at the local “cowboys” - it happened that the love of bourgeois pants crossed out a person’s future career.
And on the radio every Saturday, a famous poet fought against jeans as a manifestation of an alien way of life. True, evil tongues said that this did not at all prevent him from bringing from the States to his beloved offspring the very cowboy trousers with which he frightened others.
It must be said that jeans themselves, as a type of comfortable pants, were never ridiculed in the USSR. Probably because the cartoonists themselves dreamed of them. The characters were ridiculed.
When the fight against a fashionable and comfortable type of clothing suffered a crushing fiasco and it became clear that tight trousers were popular not only with young people, but also with middle-aged people, the authorities decided to legalize the situation, at the same time depriving it of its hated pro-American connotation. Large quantities of Bulgarian jeans “Rila” and Indian jeans of an unknown brand were purchased.
After the 1980 Olympics, held in Moscow, jeans began to be produced in the USSR. The first factory-made Soviet jeans were made from Indian fabric and were called “Tver”. But these pants were similar to jeans only in the color of the fabric. And although nostalgia lovers remember these Soviet jeans with warmth, they were still stiff, uncomfortable and not practical.
And yet, some managed to tear off the label and button with the inscription “Tver” and replace them with a “branded” label. Thus, it was possible to buy Soviet jeans in a store for 30 rubles and sell them on the market for 100 as branded ones.
The boy grabbed the wire with his hand.
Dad bent over a pile of coals:
“Where are these jeans for two hundred rubles?”
I'm on a horse today -
Happiness smiled at me:
I wear new jeans
I look down on everyone -
I'm dressed fashionably
In fine ribbed corduroy!
Foreign mark
Speaks for itself:
Whose product and whose country -
The company is visible from afar!
I went out to the blackboard in class.
Got up. I'm standing with a chalk in my hand.
And the teacher narrows his eyes:
- What's happened? "Vas ist das?"
Really,” the class whispers, “
It’s not clear, “vas ist das”?
This is an import! First grade!
Ivanov is dressed like a lord!
Only Puzikova Lada
She whispered: - Ivanov,
What in the world do you need?
Besides imported pants?
Although Levi Strauss received a patent for the production of “strapless work overalls with pockets for a knife, money and watches” back in 1873, jeans reached the USSR only in the middle of the last century, when the 1957 Youth and Student Festival was held in Moscow, and in the USSR dudes with black marketeers appeared, as well as a fashion for foreign names and clothes. But even then, people did not immediately appreciate the new outfit, and only when, in the early 70s, jeans began to be worn everywhere by the Moscow fashionable beau monde and majors who looked like hippies, the denim wave first captured Moscow, and then spread throughout the Union.
Soon jeans became a cult item - almost every person under forty sought to acquire them.
Do you remember your first jeans, these work pants of American proletarians and other residents of a potential enemy of the USSR? I remember it very well. These were Texas jeans, for which my parents did not spare 120 rubles and bought them for my 13th birthday. Damn, how I was happy about this gift! And I don’t care that they were too big for me - their trouser legs had to be cut and narrowed a little. And I didn’t care that they were too wide at the waist - it was unnoticeable behind a wide leather belt with a large badge.
Another thing was upsetting - they were too new: hard and unworn. And then I did something stupid - after listening to someone’s advice, I took a brick and began to rub my knees with it to give my jeans a “worn” effect. Well, he rubbed it all the way to the hole... “These were your last jeans,” said the father, patting himself on the knee covered with a Wrangler, and he was wrong.
I was lucky - I spent my childhood in Crimea and I had many acquaintances of my father and acquaintances of his acquaintances, overseas sailors. Therefore, my parents (and then me) did not need to buy jeans from black marketeers or go to Moscow in order (if they were lucky) to wait in a long line in Moscow stores to buy jeans of unknown sizes and “brands” (or even worse, Indian or Polish).
I was also freed from the danger of running into fake jeans, which the underground market of “guild workers” were then making with might and main (however, it was difficult not to distinguish them from real ones). Or buy half a pant leg sealed in a transparent bag from Fartsa (there was such a “kid” back then). Or wear the first Soviet Tver jeans, which resembled jeans only in color. Soviet craftsmen sometimes bought these jeans in a department store for 30 rubles apiece, then tore off the label and in its place sewed some fashionable “label” and changed the button. After that, they “pushed” it at a “flea market” for 120 rubles, passing it off as branded.
No, the sailors I knew willingly brought jeans of the required size and the brand ordered (although customs limited the sailors, allowing the import of no more than three pairs of jeans, they managed to smuggle in the required number in all sorts of ways). And by “pushing to the left” the heels of the clothes brought by the sailors for sale, you could earn money for new jeans for yourself (at that time in the Union everyone who had such an opportunity was swindled). The prices for jeans were as follows: the starting price on the black market started at 150 rubles. and reached 220 in the Caucasus, but purchasing them from the seller himself, who brought these jeans from abroad, without intermediaries cost 120-130 rubles.
Therefore, then I had a lot of different jeans: “Levis”, “Montana”, “Lee”, “Rifle” - “classic” and corduroy (black and brown). And there were denim shirts. And my adored denim suit “Wrangler” (my favorite denim company), which I brought in 5 years before the holes and trimming of the sleeves on the jacket and the legs for shorts. But sometimes, after wearing jeans for a year, I sold them for the same price as I bought them, and sometimes it was a little more expensive.
And the holes on those jeans appeared in a different place than on the current ones. For some reason, modern jeans tear at the knees, but those jeans primarily tore at the butt and (sorry) in the crotch. Then patches made of the same denim or leather were sewn there. And these jeans were worn to the point where there were almost more patches on them than the “native” fabric.
“But times have changed - they have changed completely” (c) Chizh, and “classic” jeans began to go out of fashion and our lives. First, “varenki” and “pyramids” appeared from Turkey, and then (so as not to be rubbed with bricks) jeans treated with chemicals to look “worn” from Hong Kong and other Asia. But the good old “gins” could still be found and I preferred to wear them.
And then “ordinary” jeans disappeared altogether, and I could only dream of purchasing the “state” “jeans” of my youth - classic cut, dark blue, thick, orange stitching, a button like an old coin, and a leather label. Not tapered or flared, but straight from the knee, being new - tough as cotton, without any “bells and whistles”, not treated with chemicals to the point of artificial abrasion, but so that they rub in the right places during wear (on the knees and on the butt) pleasant sky blue color, gradually losing its hardness. And on the front pockets, so that this wear gives rise to nice folds that would straighten out when you put your hand in for a lighter or money. So that after chewing a match, you could rub your jeans with it and the end of the match would get a blue coating.
The fashion of the 80s is characterized by a riot of colors and, I would say, aggressiveness, in everything - in clothes, shoes, makeup. Clothes have an inverted triangle silhouette, with wide shoulders, wide belts and sashes tied at the waist, outfits are decorated with asymmetrical triangular inserts, countless pockets, dolman sleeves, and a boat neckline.
But in this post I would like to talk not about general trends in clothing of the 80s, but about the iconic things of the 80s in the USSR.
Bright trousers - bananas wide at the top, with folds or gathers at the waist and narrowed at the bottom. They were either plain (pink, neon, yellow, light green) or multi-colored (floral, polka dot, various patterns). There were no such things in the store, so I often had to sew. In the fabric store we bought teak - a fabric for sewing pillow covers, quite durable, mostly pink, blue or light green, usually available, and such trousers were sewn from it.
Overalls.
Clothes with dolman sleeves. This sleeve style was very popular in those years.
Somewhere in the mid-80s it became all the rage jeans. Of course, they were not widely sold. Boiled jeans could be obtained from black marketeers, but it cost a lot of money, and not everyone could afford it.
Therefore, whenshortage that existed in the late 80sonthings were invented several ways to transform ordinaryjeans (or, as they were called pseudo jeans - jeans produced in countriessocialist community: “RULA” (Bulgaria), “Tver” (USSR), “Gold Fox” (GDR)or in India) boiled.
To make pseudo jeans look like a fashionable “varenka”, they were boiled with bleach, tied with knots to give the fabric a characteristic pattern, boiled with soda and bleach, and then washed in a washing machine with stones or rolled (a special roller soaked in water was rolled over the jeans). “Whiteness” resulted in stains - the result was “rolled” boiled milk).
Later, “malvina” jeans appeared - Indian “varenki”, which you no longer had to make yourself.
They were a very fashionable thing in the 80s wide belts. The belt could be made of leather (leatherette), or rubber-based, and was worn on dresses, blouses, sweaters, and skirts.
In winter the ultimate dream was padded jackets. Dutik jacket (puffed)- a quilted jacket made of nylon (the nylon is thin and soft, almost does not rustle) with insulation, zipper + button fasteners, bright colors, from lilac to bright yellow tones, the shape seems to be pumped up with air, reminiscent of a skier’s suit. They appeared in the Soviet Union in 1984, production was mainly Finnish, there were also more “Western” specimens - Japanese.
Women's hats "pipe" or "stocking". Such tube-stockings were knitted independently in a circular knitting pattern on four knitting needles, and combined both a hat and a scarf at once.
And some simply knittedheadband.
By the way, such coats were also very popular.
Towards the end of the 80s such a cult thing appeared as pyramid jeans. These light blue jeans were especially desirable. They were voluminous at the top and narrowed at the bottom and were tucked at the bottom with a cuff. At the end of the USSR, literally everyone was “dissected” in the legendary light-colored jeans with a camel on the back pocket.
Colored tights (including white) and fishnet tights.
