I'm in Love with You, Life!: Costuming


Figure 1.-- The costuming provides an interesting view of how Soviet boys dressed in the 1960s. Notice the boy wears a short pants suit with a beret, white shirt, black bow-tie and long stockings. At one point the boy takes off his suit jacket to reveal that he is wearing a white blouse with very brief short pants (also a small black tie arranged with a bow at his neck). Notice how long the stockings are. This would have been standard contemporary clothing in Moscow at the time for a boy this age.

The costuming provides an interesting view of how Soviet boys dressed in the 1960s. Notice the boy wears a short pants suit with a beret, white shirt, black bow-tie and long stockings. At one point the boy takes off his suit jacket to reveal that he is wearing a white blouse with very brief short pants (also a small black tie arranged with a bow at his neck). Notice how long the stockings are. This would have been standard contemporary clothing in Moscow at the time for a boy this age. In a couple years, tights would very quickly replace long stockings. We get the impression that children im many Soviet films wore their own clothes istead of costumes. But we do not know about this particular film. The tan long stockings have to be extremely long to cover his legs with such short shorts, but the stockings are very neatly held up with a garter waist (with supporters) so that the effect is like tights. It is interesting, however, that even in 1967 (the date of the film which features the Moscow fashions of that year), the boy is wearing long stockings with supporters rather than tights. This is clear from the garter buttons that are occasionally visible.







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