Dude Where is my Harlem?
Ah, the importation of cultural habits: Moscow kids mimicking American ‘thug life’. While pretty amusing, and perhaps not even surprising, how come you never see kids in Harlem wearing kokoshniks and taking balalaikas with them to parties?
Seventies and Now (WTF!)
Here are a few shots of Russian youth from back in the Seventies. Mustaches and Beatle’s haircuts abound! For comparison, we also included some current day pictures of Russians (below).
Sports Wedding
Are some Russian people so into sports that they even can go to their own wedding dressed into brand new adidas sports suite? Yes and no! It is not hundred percent clear what was the reason for the groom to do this but there are strong grounds to suspect that this was a specific Russian joke, based on the habit of many representatives of Russian street culture to wear Adidas sports as top cloths choice.
Anyways, this Russian bride looks to be shy of this choice.
Now These Are Gangstas
All that Hip Hop mania is in Russia too.
Those sons tend to look real gangsta..
Soviet Punks
In Soviet Russia… Well, in Soviet Russia the state tried to control everything and such things like music people were listening or the cloths people were wearing was under strict regulation. School children in every Soviet school had to wear uniforms and were obliged to buy it each year. There were no single school where kids were dressed in color nice cloths - everyone was wearing the one and only styled form in Russia at that time.
Same story was on the streets. If the police have spotted someone looking weird he could be easily taken to psychiatric clinic and treated there with severe mind altering stuff.
Still, some, especially closer to the times when the Soviet Union ceased to exist started breaking this barrier and their extraordinary looks shocked people. Here are some of the photos from that times.
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