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DRESSES IN RUSSIA VOTE TO DECIDE. LONDON, August 26. Tho 1 News Chronicle’s ’ Moscow correspondent states that, in order to save money and cloth, tho Soviet Readymade Garment Trust has devised a plan for the democratisation of fashions. Under the plan, all the proletarian women would no given a chance to vote for what they want to wear, pledging themselves to abide by the wishes of the majority, and wear the same kind of dresses. There will be sprung and autumn styles available for months in advance of the season. Congresses of typists, clerks, and
working women will bo convened throughout Russia, at which mannequins will display six or eight revolutionary gowns on which the vote will be taken. The State Garment Trust will not make any clothes save those tho majority wants. The importation of foreign fashion magazines will bo prohibited, and Soviet periodicals will be obliged to reproduce only Soviet designs.
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 16
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