Soviet headwear
Updated: Jun 11, 2021
Soviet headdresses most often followed Western fashion with a slight delay. But there were also peculiar specimen.
"Moda" fashion magazine autumn/winter 1967-1968
Chairman of the Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev on the tribune of Lenin's Mausoleum. Photo by Vladimir Musaelyan. Moscow,1975
"USSR in Construction" magazine, 1935
Kindergarten boys. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1941
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Moscow. Photo by P.Kassin, 1988
"Sunday Disco" painting by Igor Simonov,1988
Family archive photo, 1970s
"Women's headgear" advertising poster, 1953
"Russian Snow" painting by Vitaly Polyakov, 1967
Vladimir Lenin in disguise, 1917
"The Provincial Beauty" painting by Evgeny Shukaev,1973
Soviet soldiers after withdrawal from Afghanistan. Photo by Vitaly Armand, Termez, Uzbek SSR, 1989
Fashion model. Photo by I.Kuksov, 1965
Actress Zinaida Reich as Phosphoric Woman in "The Bathhouse" play by Vladimir Mayakovsky, production by Vsevolod Meyerhold. Photo by Alexey Temerin,1930
"Men's rice straw hats" advertising poster, 1952
"Red Army guard on duty" photo by Arkady Shaikhet,1925
Post-Soviet visual. First McDonald's in Moscow. Photo by Martin Parr, 1992
Soldier at military parade. Photo by Ivan Shagin, Moscow, 1940
Premier Nikita Khrushchev at a Collective Farm in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, 1958
Cheka secret police agents,1921
Khabarovsk girl. Photo by Dean Conger, 1970s