FOREIGN STYLES.
Russia is going through a curious phase with regard to everything foreign, notes an overseas correspondent. The politics of countries such as Britain and America are detested, but their goods are greatly admired. Now that cloth is more plentiful, every Russian wants to have a suit or dress made in the foreign style. The old Russian costumes are rapidly vanishing. The new Soviet citizen prefers Western fashions. I know lots of Englishmen and others in the British Empire who would dearly love not to have to wear stiff collars and ties. But Russian men are adopting this fashion with obvious relish.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 13
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103FOREIGN STYLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 13
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