Past: modoborchestvo in hard times (1916)

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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).