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      <image:caption>Women in Kyiv. Thomas Taylor Hammond. 1972</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Slova - Importing Fashion: The Burden of Abiding by Barometers of Beauty - Reports show that many women became more conscious of how they presented themselves in public. TheNew YorkTimes reported in 1967 that “the new woman is concerned about where she lives and how she lives, and what she looks like. She has decided that she looks better in high-heeled shoes, lipstick, brightly colored clothes and that her hair should be soft and feminine.” Similarly, they reported, presumably no Uzbek woman “ever stepped out of the house without first applying their eye make-up.” The conflation of beauty and consumption represented the commodification of aesthetics for Soviet women. Government-sponsored books, magazines, and journals burgeoned across the Union. Some were more high end, advertising Soviet-style high culture, such as Zhurnal Mod (Журнал Мод, meaning “Fashion magazine”) while others, such as Rabotnitsa (Работница, meaning “Woman Worker”) and Sovetksaia Zhenshchina (Советская Женщина “meaning, Soviet Woman”), were not specifically tailored to showing off extravagance. Instead, these magazines made fashion easily accessible, providing cutouts and instructions for sewing at home. Despite the accessibility of some styles, there was a persistent yearning for what was not had. As Georg Simmel describes, fashion satisfies both the demands not only for social adaptation but also for differentiation. Fashion by its very nature insists that the individual get ahead of the pack.</image:title>
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