Women of the USSR could work in factories and plants, be milkmaids or even military pilots, but no matter what their job was - they all liked to dress up, especially in calico fabrics with colorful prints.
A girl with Leica photo camera, 1934
Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Girls on holidays, 1940s
Yulia Antonova archive/russiainphoto.ru
Girls by Lake Ritsa in Abkhaz republic, 1952
Boris Makaseev, Vladislav Mikosha/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Actress Klara Luchko in Moscow, 1950s
Yevgeny Umnov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Women resting on a boulevard bench, 1950s
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Girls in the country, 1950s
Boris Kosarev/Maria Kosareva archive/russiainphoto.ru
Girls in a garden, 1950s
Olga Kukhar archive/russiainphoto.ru
Women at a mineral water resort in the Caucasus, 1950s
Ivan Panov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Soviet Uzbek girls, 1950
Galina Kochetkova archive/russiainphoto.ru
Holidaying in a village, 1950s
Levchenko-Lutvinovy archive/russiainphoto.ru
In a kolkhoz called 'Communist International', 1950s
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
A big city girl, 1950s
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Women at Moscow's oldest sewing factory, 1958
Semyon Fridland/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Ladies taking sun bath, 1958
Dmitry Baltermants/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
A student with a fancy purse, 1950s
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Women on the Red Square, 1960s
Peter Nikushenko/russiainphoto.ru
'Friendship' fountain in VDNKh park, 1960s
Viktor Gorkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Girls on a carousel, 1967
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
A Moscow summer day, 1960s
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Actress Yulia Borisova, 1962
Isaac Tunkel/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Soviet automobile advertising, 1964
Yury Levyant/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Women dressed up for the market, 1960s
Vsevolod Tarasevich/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
Ladies sitting in a grass field, 1970
Viktor Gorkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
A mom in Moscow, 1970s
Viktor Yershov/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
A girl having lunch in a cafe, 1975
Valery Usmanov/Valery Usmanov archive/russiainphoto.ru
Women giggling at a sewing factory, 1981
Yury Inyakin/Izvestia newspaper/russiainphoto.ru
Women strolling on a street in Volgograd, 1989
Vadim Kachan/Vadim Kachan archive/russiainphoto.ru
A sunny summer's day, 1990
Yury Abramochkin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru
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