MOSCOW, Feb 15, Alina Kravtsova. The cultural and sexual revolutions in the West certainly influenced the mores and fashions of Soviet society in the 1960s. But the achievements of the USSR did not go unnoticed abroad. Despite the Iron Curtain, Beatlemania penetrated us, and European designers were inspired by our astronauts. /03/ec9a60be44313d0c650f3ca4068cc52f.jpg» media-type=»photo» data-crop-ratio=»1″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»600″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1920″ decoding=»async» />
The basic silhouette of the 1950s is no longer relevant in the next decade. A free and daring girl does not wear tight jackets that constrain movements, uncomfortable long puffy skirts.
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“The New Look dress could weigh up to ten kilograms,” says Karina Kaprielova, an international stylist and expert at the Academy of Social Technologies. — The fifties are perhaps the most aesthetic, respectable era in fashion. But a new time has come — bright, rebellious.
Space style
Flights into space by Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova amazed the whole world. People started talking about extraterrestrial civilizations, things resembling an alien costume came into fashion. 
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“The trend was set by the French fashion designer Andre Courrège,” Kaprielova clarifies. — He presented clothes made of unusual materials with geometric design elements. Helmets, jumpsuits with shorts, A-line short dresses combined with boots are his know-how. And Pierre Cardin came up with a cosmic short sundress made of knitwear or leather. crop-ratio=»0.65979381443299″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»396″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1267″ decoding =»async» />
In its purest form, the alien style existed only on the catwalk and in the movies, the expert adds. But his features are visible in everyday wardrobe. By the way, some fashion historians believe that it was André Courrèges who invented the miniskirt, the main trend of the 60s. and age.
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“This is due to the sexual revolution that took place in those years in the United States and Europe,” explains fashion and style expert, psychologist, writer Anna Andrianova. “Echoes of it reached us — people behaved more liberated.”
I must say that the Soviet industry did not produce minis. We sewed ourselves.
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Short dresses prevailed — it was difficult to match the top with the skirt. Later they learned to crochet fishnet tops and create sets with elongated vests or shortened jackets.
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“In the USSR, mini was combined with voluminous hairstyles, which did not make women younger, but added age to women,” notes Karina Kaprielova. — In the West, the famous sesson haircut appeared, ideally suited for a short skirt. Babette goes to war.» It was also shown to the Soviet Union. And everyone began to comb their hair like Brigitte Bardot. crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»338″ data-source-sid=»» class=»» />
The tail tied at the crown was neatly pinned up. We launched the production of special hair nets — they were in great short supply. «0.765893792071803» data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»460″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1471″ decoding=»async» />
Were popular and voluminous elongated haircuts in the style of another film idol of the decade — Sophia Loren.
Light mother-of-pearl lipstick has come into fashion. Women still drew arrows. The pencil was soaked in a soap solution, and the ink, which was sold in briquettes, was dissolved with water.
Red shades were added to the fashionable blond. They used henna, basma, an infusion of onion peel, which gave a reddish tint. Imported chemical dyes appeared on sale.
Synthetic boom
The cult of things made of nylon, lycra, crimplene began. New materials were perceived as a symbol of a modern way of life. In addition, such clothes were easily washed and did not wrinkle.
Women loved synthetic blouses with frills, and men wore white nylon shirts. All Soviet fashionistas dreamed of a combination with lace inserts.
Bologna from Bologna
The straight, minimalistic bologna cloak was of various colors, but most often blue or black. It was usually not fastened, the sleeves were rolled up to the elbow. Paired with a stiletto heel and turtleneck, this is one of the most fatal female looks of the decade. ratio=»0.5625″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»338″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»» />
The first samples were brought from Italy, and then the plant in Naro-Fominsk took up the tailoring. However, it was in short supply. No wonder Vysotsky sang: «My friends, though not in Bologna, but they don't drag from the family.»
Fashionable fur
Eco fur coats, popular today, were at the height of fashion in the 1960s. True, then it had nothing to do with the movement for the conservation of nature. Even wealthy ladies preferred synthetics. width=»600″ data-crop-height=»338″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»» />
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And the men wore hats made of faux astrakhan fur.
«Shoes with studs»
«In a thin sweater, in shoes with studs — stupid everything torments you with one thing,» Iosif Kobzon sang in the hit «And again in the yard.» Neat pumps with a small heel by today's standards — five to six centimeters — were worn by Soviet women everywhere. data-crop-ratio=»1.017098192476795″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»610″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»m-vertical lazyload» width=»1920″ height =»1953″ decoding=»async» />
More comfortable models with a square stable heel were also in fashion, adds Karina Kaprielova. Ballet shoes are another innovation of that era.
Men also wore pointed shoes.
Russian boots
High boots with a zipper are one of the most desired things for Soviet women. Huge queues lined up for Dutch models made of patent eco-leather.
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“Few people know that the revolutionary idea belongs to our Soviet designer Vera Aralova,” says Anna Andrianova. — At the Russian Fashion Week in Paris in 1959, she presented a collection of outerwear, complemented by zip-up boots. The grasping Europeans instantly took the know-how into service and set up production — they appropriated the laurels of our Vera Ippolitovna.
Western element
Women's trousers were still perceived as an element of Western ideology and a foreign way of life.
In 1966, Frenchman Yves Saint Laurent showed off a pantsuit and made a splash. The following year, he shocked everyone with a women's tuxedo. -crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»606″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»m-vertical lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1938″ decoding=»async»/
«The fashion for a women's trouser suit in the USSR was formed in the 1970s,» explains Karina Kaprielova. «But in the 1960s, a set with a tunic resembling a mini dress was very relevant.»
Not only dudes
Elvis Presley and The Beatles largely determined men's fashion. 
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The flare has become a trend. Pants with a pleat on the side, which made the trouser leg even wider at the bottom, were especially chic.
Turtleneck, nylon shirt, fitted jacket without sides in the Soviet Union were worn not only by dudes.
Russian Cardin and new style icons
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In 1965, Vyacheslav Zaitsev came to the All-Union Model House and immediately attracted the attention of foreign colleagues. Met Pierre Cardin.
Prima of the Bolshoi Theater Maya Plisetskaya was also friends with the French couturier. He created many stage costumes for her.
Soviet designers increasingly showed their collections abroad — in Budapest, Leipzig, Berlin, Warsaw, Havana, New York, London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro , Mexico City, Tokyo, Cairo, Montreal.
Models of the 1960s — Regina Zbarskaya, Yanina Cherepkova, Liliana Baskakova, Galina Milovskaya, Mila Romanovskaya — were style icons and real stars.