Can the way you dress become a political declaration? Can you be
fashionable in the times when shop shelves offer only working clothes?
Is it possible to manifest freedom with you looks?
In the dim days of the socialist country underground fashion flourished. Young people wanted to resemble their peers from New York, London, Paris.
“Political Dress” shows different phases of the Polish People’s Republic and the changes in how fashion was perceived. From hardline Stalinism, when wearing colourful socks meant risking arrest, through the ‘60s and Poland’s relative openness toward the French fashion, the propaganda of the ‘70s and the fascination with hippie style, to the martial law and the ‘80s, and the eruption of punk.
In the dim days of the socialist country underground fashion flourished. Young people wanted to resemble their peers from New York, London, Paris.
“Political Dress” shows different phases of the Polish People’s Republic and the changes in how fashion was perceived. From hardline Stalinism, when wearing colourful socks meant risking arrest, through the ‘60s and Poland’s relative openness toward the French fashion, the propaganda of the ‘70s and the fascination with hippie style, to the martial law and the ‘80s, and the eruption of punk.