Past: Modoborchestvo in hard times (1916)
 

Idea modoborchestva with each passing day becomes more popular.
All, and the ladies and their husbands, they understood that they were in feudal dependence on the dozens of fashionable tailors - and the dream reset these shackles.
  That's why so many hopes pinned to the public at the "Evening of fashion" arranged under the guise of a charming ballerina Imp.teatrov TP Karsavina and with the assistance LY Lyapkovskoy, LP Barrash, Gerdt, MK Scherer, Fokin 2, Glebova - Sudeikina, Puni-Boguslawska etc.
     Thought that the evening will tolchek Russian kostyumodekorativnomu creativity.
     Expect to see Russian beauties in costumes made from a Russian mother from drawings by Russian artists Russian dressmakers, taking into account the impropriety of large accounts in time of war.
     And it turns .... The dresses were from 250 rubles. to 2,000 p. !
    Yes, one dress cost more than 2,000 rub.! Is the bearer of his thinking that she too is struggling with the luxury of the method: - luxury of luxuries bouncers!
     Yes, and 250 pp. - The cheapest dress - is not terribly expensive at the current time?
But a member of the State Duma, AA Bublikov introduced a bill on anti-luxury.
      In the competition participated BI Anisfeld, Ivan Bilibin, AF Gaush, MVDobuzhinsky, N. Kalmykov, SY Sudeikin, VM Khodasevich kn.A.K.Shervashidze, IA Puni.

   
(N. Shebuyev in the journal "The Sun of Russia" in May 1916.)
Exhibits costumes from drawings SY Sudeikina (first three), I. Puni (fourth), A. Shervashidze (fifth).

That this is not clear. "The first three", "second", "third" ...

Now you have to say about the models themselves. The first three photos. Afanasyevna Olga Glebova-Sudeikina. Born in 1885 in St. Petersburg. She died in 1945 in Paris Hospital Busik. Since 1907, the wife of Sergei Sudeikina. As it is written in a book: "A unique, symbolic figure in the Silver Age, a close friend of Anna Akhmatova, a man of rare talent: actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya, poet - translator, reciter, a ballerina, a porcelain painter, sculptor, and finally, the woman - love .
In the fourth photo - model Puni - Boguslavskaya Xenia Leonidovna.
theater artist, graphic artist, painter of Applied Arts (1892 - 1971). The wife of the artist Ivan Puni. In 1914 he released together with her husband kubofuturistichesky album "Roaring Parnassus, participated in exhibitions: Tramway V and 0,10. (1915-16 gg.) Jack of Diamonds (1919), World of Art (1916-1918). In 1917 became Secretary of the Union of Freedom of the arts. In 1919 he went with her husband in Berlin. Performed covers for the German and Russian publishing houses, and engaged in set design in theater-cabaret Blue Bird and Russian romantic theater. Participated in the 1-st Russian art exhibition in Berlin (1922). Since 1923, she lived in Paris.
The third model FOKINA (nee Antonov) Vera Petrovna. (1886, St. Petersburg -1958, New York), a ballerina. Since 1905, his wife and associate of Fokine. At the end of St. Petersburg. Theater School in 1904-18 at the Mariinsky Theater. She made her debut party Pepito (Puteshestvuyuschayatantsovschitsa "). The dancer of the Imperial Ballet.

"Psyche", "Columbine", "Genius of Dance. Porcelain, 1923-1924,. (Photos from the directory State Porcelain Factory.)
Akhmatova and Glebova.
S. Sudeikin. Portrait of Olga Glebova-Sudeikina in the role confusion. 1913

Sight of the artist and poet on men's fashion.
Why women can, but we can not!
Today, I am vehement,
All ablaze with anger, --
And the league sufrazhistov
I open dnes ..
The end of all incense
Resignation of the former:
We announce to the ladies
War and .. we'll move into action ..
Understand that no false
The latest path of:
Why, why should they be,
And to us .. but we can not ..?
..... etc.
  Lyrics M. Gal.
(From the magazine "Zarya" in June 1914)

Sighted people.