Soviet Fashions
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CHANGE ORDERED Dictator Leads Way With Dinner Jacket "UPPER-CLASS" TREND
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(Reeeived 19, 11.30 a.m ) LONDON, Jan. 18. The "Daily Sketch's" Moscow correspondent says there is almost a revolutionary change in Moscow. Drawingroom fashions are indicated hy an order for a dinner-jacket for M. Stalin. It was, it adds, unwise, even a few months ago, for a Soviet diplomat to wear evening dress at domestic functions. Lately, hints have heen dropped that evening dress should he encouraged in order to express Moscow 's pro- / sperity. Coincident with the atory of M. Stalin 's dinner-jacket, the Finnish Russian emigrant newspaper "Segodnya" says: "Soviet diplomats ahroad liava been instructed to give more attqntion to their hearing, dress and manners in order to create a good impression in social circles instead of living in relative isolation." The paper says that apparently they must deck themselves in the garb of the hourgeoise to cultivate friends in the upper classes,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 3, 19 January 1937, Page 7
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