/fa/ - Fashion

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Look for Soviet socialist realism art as an inspiration and focus on the themes that those pieces represent. First and foremost is the glorification of proletariat imagery, so the standard look should be clothes that a member of the working class would wear such as thick work shirts and pants that someone could actually do physical labour in. This means avoid very skinny jeans if you don't want to look like a suburban millennial tryhard playing dress-up as someone who works for a living. Which you probably are, but at least avoid looking like it.

Add elements of military apparel, such as a field jacket or boots. Don't go overboard with them. Your goal is a militarized worker, not a guard on the Berlin Wall. In many Soviet art pieces, even soldiers tend to have somewhat disheveled coats rather than spotless uniforms, which has more of a fascist aesthetic. Avoid heavy use of black unless you want to be confused for a Neo Nazi football hooligan.

In the OP image, Lenin is wearing a suit, but the coat he is wearing looks coarse and weathered, resembling a workman's coat. Likewise, Lenin is holding a newsboy cap that was a staple item of Russian laborers in that period. Rather than dressing like a worker, he brings in a few elements to display his political sympathies while still dressing like a member of the intelligentsia. This is a route you could take if you don't have the physical look to actually pull off full working class attire.

Don't look to what actual citizens in the Soviet Union wore for inspiration, as actual Soviet fashion often rebelled against the state imagery and adopted a look emulating Western youth culture. Like with everything else in the USSR, the state propaganda was pretty far from the reality. The exceptions to this are actual images of militarized laborers, such as the soviets and militias from the early stages of the Russian Revolution, and, ironically, anti-Soviet protesters as in pictures from the Hungarian Revolution.