At all times, women are serious approach to the choice of attire, including a hike to the beach. It has always been a kind of publication. Soviet women in this matter were not an exception.
Up to 60-ies in the USSR, it was almost impossible to find a swimsuit in industrial production. It made our mothers and grandmothers properly show imagination. Since the good stuff was not easy to find, the clothes never discarded and alter as possible.
Swimwear while often been knitted or alter them from old knitted dresses and blouses. Older women allowed themselves to go to the beach in the ordinary underwear - black satin bra supplemented cowards, like men.
In Europe it is actively gaining popularity bikini, largely due to Brigitte Bardot. In the Soviet Union until the restructuring did not buy these models as they were considered obscene. Girls self shortened panties on top, but considered the most fashionable bikini with ties. Their Soviet ladies sewed themselves.
In the late 60's - early 70's there was the opportunity to buy imported swimwear. Few could afford such a luxury - they cost a fabulous sum in those days, and to get this, it was necessary to defend a considerable place. Particularly widespread are imported synthetic swimsuits with cups. these swimsuits, incidentally, did not differ special beauty. Their colors were too modest and self-colored.
Peak beachwear USSR fell somewhere in the middle 70s. Imported from Yugoslavia or the German Democratic Republic were considered the most fashionable swimsuits. Yugoslav bathing suits were more comfortable, as were drying faster. Soviet ladies finally got the opportunity to buy ready-made and beautiful bathing suit, without exploiting the sewing machine.
Soon, with the beginning of the 80s, the fashion massively began to enter a bikini. On the beaches everywhere you could see the young girls in tiny panties and bra in the shape of a triangle. Older women continued to wear modest swimwear.
Over time, the fabric on the swimsuit minimizing, opening more and more the hips kurortnits. There bikini thong and then swimwear, monokini.
