The test of any sweeping revolution oF great political change uprooting. national life is the way the women Feceive it. Since the outbreak of the! Soviet revolution in Russia, the world] thas been regaled with pictures of new type of woman, sturdily built, plainly' almost shabbily dressed, working side by side with men revealing little distinction of sex or} Gress, especially in military matters, But it could not be expected that the feminine soul could ever be completely submerged no matter how] efficient or devastating may be the political methods used to. smother Individual vanity. Visitors to Russia, report an important development in. feminine attire where some slight] variations of Paris fashions are on, sale in the shops, despite the stout Protest of one feminine authority] who sticks to the old and the plain in clothes. One Englishwoman re. cently visiting Moscow reports that some small matters, such as dresses and furniture, there is a distinct "bourgeois" atmosphere, and, even evening dresses are. appearing fat the Opera while she was. warned against appearing one hot night] without stockings because such Practice was "simply not done" in, the new Moscow. Other visitors re-for to the lure of a bottle of _perfume or a fashionable dress to the Russian woman used so many years: to what the rest of the world regards as shabbiness although the citizens of the Soviet might consider very practical attire. Still, there is denying the depths of 2 woman's yearning for beautification.
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