Fashioneast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism (Mit Press),Used

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A Richly Illustrated, Comprehensive Study Of Fashion Under Socialism, From Statesponsored Prototypes To Unofficial Imitations Of Paris Fashion.The Idea Of Fashion Under Socialism Conjures Up Images Of Babushka Headscarves And Black Market Blue Jeans. And Yet, As Djurdja Bartlett Shows In This Groundbreaking Book, The Socialist East Had An Intimate Relationship With Fashion. Official Antagonismwhich Cast Fashion As Frivolous And Antirevolutionaryeventually Gave Way To Grudging Acceptance And Creeping Consumerism. Bartlett Outlines Three Phases In Socialist Fashion, And Illustrates Them With Abundant Images From Magazines Of The Period: Postrevolutionary Utopian Dress, Official Statesanctioned Socialist Fashion, And Samizdatstyle Everyday Fashion. Utopian Dress, Ranging From The Geometric Abstraction Of The Constructivists Under Bolshevism In The Soviet Union To The Nofrills Desexualized Uniform Of A Factory Worker In Czechoslovakia, Reflected The Revolutionary Urge For A Clean Break With The Past. The Highly Centralized Socialist Fashion System, Part Of Stalinist Industrialization, Offered Official Prototypes Of High Fashion That Were Never Available In Storesmythical Images Of Smart And Luxurious Dresses That Symbolized The Economic Progress That Socialist Regimes Dreamed Of. Everyday Fashion, Starting In The 1950S, Was An Unofficial, Doityourself Enterprise: Western Fashions Obtained Through Semiclandestine Channels Or Sewn At Home. The State Tolerated The Demand For Western Fashion, Promising The Burgeoning Middle Class Consumer Goods In Exchange For Political Loyalty. Bartlett Traces The Progress Of Socialist Fashion In The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, And Yugoslavia, Drawing On Statesponsored Socialist Women'S Magazines, Etiquette Books, Socialist Manuals On Dress, Private Archives, And Her Own Interviews With Designers, Fashion Editors, And Other Key Figures. Fashion, She Suggests, With All Its Ephemerality And Dynamism, Was In Perpetual Conflict With The Socialist Regimes' Fear Of Change And Need For Control. It Was, To Echo The Famous First Sentence From The Communist Manifesto, The Spectre That Haunted Socialism Until The End.

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