Producerea pieselor vestimentare în Chișinăul postbelic
Production of clothing in post-war Chisinau

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article comes with new information selected from archive sourcesand field research with reference to the clothing of the population of Chisinau in the first postwardecades. The garments from these times had the elementary role of „dressing” the majority of the populationin order for them to become an identically dressed mass. In Chisinau were concentrated mostgarment workshops, a tradition well known in the interwar period, where tailors were working, followingfashion trends and offering customers fashionable pieces. In 1947 opens the first fashion housein the republic. The workshops and factories were subordinated to the Moldovan Industry Council,fulfilling various state orders in the field of clothing production. In specialized workshops, stylizedfolk costumes were produced to represent a synthetic national costume, imposed by the authorities onthe population of the Moldovan SSR. In this context, the Moldovan SSR Clothing House was just oneelement of the network of similar institutions, which appeared almost simultaneously in the capitals ofthe Soviet republics and in large cities on Russian territory. The assistance provided by the institutionby expanding the offer has contributed to the development of the service providers sector consisting ofworkshops aimed at making custom-made clothes and national costume pieces.

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