AMAZING CLOTHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 275, 21 November 1933, Page 10

AMAZING CLOTHES.

WORN BY RUSSIAN WOMEN,

The women of Russia are to be made to wear some of the most amazing clothes ever invented. The latest fashions evolved by the Communist art dictator will make them appear as if they are walking about in propagandist posters. These new "modes" are so extraordinary that even the most loyal Communists have dared to voice protest, feeble though it be, says an English paper. Camisoles decorated with fleets of red Zeppelins are among the latest models offered for sale by the "All Union Cotton Tissue Trust," which wishes to turn the fair sex into sandwich women for Socialism. This trust's art dictator rejects all ordinary patterns as "downright counter-revolution" and considers checks "purely feudal." In describing the charms of a natty suit of desert sand coloured pyjamas, it is statpd: "If you lie on your back, a snorting locomotive rushes up the front of you; if you turn on your side, a flock of sheep graze along your upper libs; if you turn over, caravans of camels sway across the small of your back. However," it is added, "you are not Gulliver in Lilliput, but —whichever way you -lie, j'ou are a recumbent poster for the new ' Turk-Sib ' railway, bringing tlio blessings of Bolshevism to Asiatic peoples formerly downtrodden by Czars." Shop oil the Chest. More underclothing shows red aeroplanes sowing State farms with rice. There? is an ambitious pattern for a cotton frock to teach ignorant townspeople about the active life of collectivised village colonies. On the chest is a new co-operative store with a big sign over the door in three colours; peasants stand at the door with horses and carts; on the back there is the inside of a shop with a bearded man selling calico. Winnowing and threshing machines at work are under the arms, while ploughing tractors are 011 the hips. Described as still more attractive is a material for underslips and petticoats with the Red Army engaged in the storming of Perekop, one of the decisive battles of the Civil War. Shells burst and dead and dyii\«; fall in heaps. Women's Protest. If you prefer it you can get thj same line witli a revojution in China, or with the struggle to release the Red prisoners in the capitalist gaols. If you want quiet design you may fall back on a railway station. This sort of thing is proving too much even for the most loyal women Communists, and in a recent issue of "Pravda" the clothing expert asks wearily: "Why not a pattern illustrating the growth in the number of pigs on State farms during the next Ave years while they are about it ?"