December 16, 2010
It is better to look good than to feel good . . . and you look like you have influenza
The Russian Army’s snazzy new uniforms, designed by Moscow fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin, have been blamed for an outbreak of flu and pneumonia.
Mr Yudashkin, who is famous in Russia for dressing Kremlin wives, won a multi-million pound tender to give the Red Army’s successor a fashion makeover in 2007 after soldiers complained that their old uniforms made them look like they were serving in a poor developing country’s army.
But parents said that the uniforms, which were debuted at a grand Red Square military parade in 2008, had put fashion before practicality.
“On the street they (our boys) literally felt naked,” a relative of one of the soldiers told the government daily newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
“They gave our lads army boots made from fake leather with cardboard inner soles, socks, and light clothing clearly not suitable for winter.”
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Concerns have previously been raised about the fact that many Russian officers and soldiers are too fat to comfortably fit into the new uniforms.
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Red armbands on your gestapo coats are *so* 1939.
Spew! Just read Elmore Leonard’s Comfort to the Enemy last night, set in an Oklahoma camp for WWII German POWs. There’s a lot about SS and Afrika Corps uniforms.
I really can’t judge them. I prioritize form over function on a daily basis.