Tag: looking-good

  • Parachute jackets and bandage skirts: fashion in communist Poland

    An elegant former hotel employee remembers dyeing gauze bandages and turning them into ruffled skirts to remain fashionable despite chronic shortages in communist-era Poland. Dressed in a leopard-print hat, beige turtleneck and long brown skirt with tassels, Koczwanska reminisced while watching old fashion reels projected onto a gallery wall. Inventiveness was a must for looking…