{"id":464,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:14:00","slug":"a-bit-of-fashion-in-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-bit-of-fashion-in-russia-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Fashion in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\nVintage Clothing in St Petersburg, Russia<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSpending time in Russia this fall, fashions didn\u2019t seem too<br \/>\ndifferent from those at home.&nbsp; There was<br \/>\na bit of a uniform look, though, amongst the younger women.&nbsp; This look consisted of black leggings or<br \/>\ntights worn with a long tunic knit top or very, very short black skirt and high<br \/>\nblack boots.&nbsp; Actually, this was very<br \/>\nflattering for most of these tall, thin, long-legged women, but perhaps a bit<br \/>\nboring.&nbsp; Occasionally, one would see a<br \/>\nbeautiful jewel-toned wool coat worn with a floral shawl.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nWhile in the southern Siberian city of&nbsp; Irtusk I happened upon a St. Petersburg<br \/>\nnewspaper (thankfully in English) with an article about&nbsp; growing enthusiasm for vintage clothing.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The St. Petersburg Tlimes, Wednesday, September, 25, 2013<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FXYu_x-m-dU\/Uokh0jSk0pI\/AAAAAAAABnU\/VEwvguDN8DU\/s1600\/Russian+fashion+2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FXYu_x-m-dU\/Uokh0jSk0pI\/AAAAAAAABnU\/VEwvguDN8DU\/s1600\/Russian+fashion+2.jpg\" height=\"51\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nWe take the vintage look for granted and spend many hours<br \/>\nscouring sources for great, unique items reasonably priced, of course.&nbsp; That has not been the case in Russia.&nbsp; Dressing in \u201dVintage\u201d is a fashion revolution<br \/>\nwhich goes against concepts that dressing in style requires wealth.&nbsp; The article proposed that dressing in<br \/>\nclothing from the past may remind one of previous, \u201ctrying times\u201d and wearing<br \/>\nused clothing is not practiced commonly in Russia because \u201c it is normally<br \/>\nassociated with being poor\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\nThose interested in dressing in unique style, can do so at a<br \/>\nfraction of the price of current clothing. &nbsp;There is a \u201cminimum of 20%<br \/>\nmark-up added onto clothing by western brands available\u201d in St Petersburg.&nbsp; The author looks 5 years into the future and<br \/>\nsees the trend in retro growing and individuality replacing the \u201cuniform look\u201d<br \/>\nseen on city streets.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Clothing in St Petersburg, Russia Spending time in Russia this fall, fashions didn\u2019t seem too different from those at home.&nbsp; There was a bit of a uniform look, though, amongst the younger women.&nbsp; This look consisted of black leggings or tights worn with a long tunic knit top or very, very short black skirt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}