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Our information on Russian suits is limited. We see the sme styles asorn in Western Europe during the 19th century, at least with the fashionble urban population. Skeleton suits were the first suits worn. We see lapel jcket suits in he 1830s. A good exmple is Prince Nikolay Yusupov (1839). Serf boys in th countryside did not have suits. Their condition gradually improved after emancipation (1861). Rusian boys followedWestermn styles through the early-20th century. The situation chnged after the Revolution (1917). After World War I, the Soviet Union was established. This complicated the largely chronological pattern that we follow in most countries. Soviet authorities based on Communist ideology, discouraged fashion. It was seen as a Western bourgeois dalliance. Od course fashion is as old as humanity. Thus the Soviet authorities were weiging against a basic thred of human nature. Clothing manufacturers were nationalized as part of Soviet economic policy. Soviet authorities limited both wages and the acialability of consumer goods such as clolthing. Soviet manufactuers no longer had to respond to consumer demand. And shortages of consumer goods meant that Russians had to be satisfied with whatever was available. Another factor was the relative poverty of Russia during the Soviet era, especially before World War II. Russia even at the time of World War II was still a larely rural country although the cities had grown with industrial expansion. Many boys except in the major cities probably did not have suits. This changed after the War when living conditions improved, although were still far below standards in the West. And this was reflected in children's clothing.
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