Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Peter Nikushenko/russiainphoto.ru
Women of the USSR could work in factories and plants, be milkmaids or even military pilots, but no matter what their job was - they all liked to dress up, especially in calico fabrics with colorful prints.

A girl with Leica photo camera, 1934

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Girls on holidays, 1940s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Yulia Antonova archive/russiainphoto.ru

Girls by Lake Ritsa in Abkhaz republic, 1952

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Boris Makaseev, Vladislav Mikosha/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Actress Klara Luchko in Moscow, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Yevgeny Umnov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Women resting on a boulevard bench, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Girls in the country, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Boris Kosarev/Maria Kosareva archive/russiainphoto.ru

Girls in a garden, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Olga Kukhar archive/russiainphoto.ru

Women at a mineral water resort in the Caucasus, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Ivan Panov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Soviet Uzbek girls, 1950 

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Galina Kochetkova archive/russiainphoto.ru

Holidaying in a village, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Levchenko-Lutvinovy archive/russiainphoto.ru

In a kolkhoz called ‘Communist International’, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

A big city girl, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Women at Moscow’s oldest sewing factory, 1958

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Semyon Fridland/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Ladies taking sun bath, 1958

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

A student with a fancy purse, 1950s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Women on the Red Square, 1960s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Peter Nikushenko/russiainphoto.ru

‘Friendship’ fountain in VDNKh park, 1960s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Viktor Gorkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Girls on a carousel, 1967

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

A Moscow summer day, 1960s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Actress Yulia Borisova, 1962

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Isaac Tunkel/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Soviet automobile advertising, 1964

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Yury Levyant/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Women dressed up for the market, 1960s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

Ladies sitting in a grass field, 1970

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Viktor Gorkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

A mom in Moscow, 1970s

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Viktor Yershov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

A girl having lunch in a cafe, 1975

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Valery Usmanov/Valery Usmanov archive/russiainphoto.ru

Women giggling at a sewing factory, 1981

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Yury Inyakin/Izvestia newspaper/russiainphoto.ru

Women strolling on a street in Volgograd, 1989

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Vadim Kachan/Vadim Kachan archive/russiainphoto.ru

A sunny summer’s day, 1990

Soviet women’s fashion: Check out these summer dresses! (PHOTOS)
Yury Abramochkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

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