One day, Soviet boots made Paris applaud

One day, Soviet boots made Paris applaud

Fashion designer Vera Aralova came up with zipper shoes specifically for the Soviet fashion show in France, which took place in 1959. A few years later, the whole of Europe was wearing such boots.

But just 14 years earlier, a third of the country's garment factories had been destroyed. Light industry is not only a large—scale production, but also a real creative sector. How the industry recovered after the war and reached the world level is described in the cards.

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— if you remember how mothers and grandmothers sewed their outfits based on patterns from magazines.

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