Járt utak és járatlan ösvények. Új lehetőségek a szocialista divat kutatásában és értelmezésében
Travelled Roads and Untravelled Paths in the Fashion Street: New Opportunities in Researching and Interpreting Socialist Fashion

Summary/Abstract: What exactly was socialist fashion? Was it a fashion trend manifested in clothing, or primarily a discursive construct articulated in professional and institutional texts? By the mid-2020s, newly discovered archival sources and developments in fashion theory had opened up a range of new perspectives in the study of Central and Eastern European and Soviet fashion history. A key point of departure for these approaches is the demand for a unified theoretical framework articulated at the Comecon Fashion Congress and the phenomenon of centralised socialist fashion management, which emerged as a conceptual approach at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, lending socialist clothing culture a distinctive character. This study seeks to advance new perspectives in fashion research along these lines, incorporating and re-evaluating the professional achievements of the past two decades.

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