{"id":124,"date":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/17\/a-bit-of-fashion-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","slug":"a-bit-of-fashion-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-bit-of-fashion-in-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Fashion in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vintage Clothing in St Petersburg, Russia<\/div>\n
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Spending time in Russia this fall, fashions didn\u2019t seem too different from those at home.  There was a bit of a uniform look, though, amongst the younger women.  This look consisted of black leggings or tights worn with a long tunic knit top or very, very short black skirt and high black boots.  Actually, this was very flattering for most of these tall, thin, long-legged women, but perhaps a bit boring.  Occasionally, one would see a beautiful jewel-toned wool coat worn with a floral shawl.<\/div>\n
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While in the southern Siberian city of  Irtusk I happened upon a St. Petersburg newspaper (thankfully in English) with an article about  growing enthusiasm for vintage clothing.  <\/div>\n
                  The St. Petersburg Tlimes, Wednesday, September, 25, 2013<\/div>\n
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We take the vintage look for granted and spend many hours scouring sources for great, unique items reasonably priced, of course.  That has not been the case in Russia.  Dressing in \u201dVintage\u201d is a fashion revolution which goes against concepts that dressing in style requires wealth.  The article proposed that dressing in clothing from the past may remind one of previous, \u201ctrying times\u201d and wearing used clothing is not practiced commonly in Russia because \u201c it is normally associated with being poor\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Those interested in dressing in unique style, can do so at a fraction of the price of current clothing.  There is a \u201cminimum of 20% mark-up added onto clothing by western brands available\u201d in St Petersburg.  The author looks 5 years into the future and sees the trend in retro growing and individuality replacing the \u201cuniform look\u201d seen on city streets. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vintage Clothing in St Petersburg, Russia Spending time in Russia this fall, fashions didn\u2019t seem too different from those at home.  There was a bit of a uniform look, though, amongst the younger women.  This look consisted of black leggings or tights worn with a long tunic knit top or very, very short black skirt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}