Not Suited To Climate
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MOSCOW, December 22. A Soviet health official today criticised style-conscious young women who exposed their legs to the Russian winter in flimsy nylons, the Associated Press reported. Antonina F. Akhabadze, director of the Institute of Medical Cosmetics of the Ministry of Health, warned the girls they were risking frostbite.
“One has to take into account our Russian climate. One can’t blindly imitate foreign fashions. In France or Italy the winters are milder and warmer, ** she said in an interview in the youth newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 2
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