Volgograd residents are invited to see the “Tsaritsyn milliner’s salon”
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The exhibition in the regional museum of local lore is open until the close of April.
In the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local Lore there is an exhibition “Salon of the Tsaritsyno Modiste”, visiting which you can easily realize in the creation of fashion that has dominated for more than 100 years.
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
The exhibition is dedicated to the world of global fashion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All podium studies were then born in Paris and spread throughout the cities of Russia. Residents of Tsaritsyn in droves did not lag behind the dining ladies. The city was experiencing an economic boom and a surge of interest in adequate clothing. The museum exposition repeats the needs of the salons of the Tsaritsyno milliners, whose services are in high demand among the townspeople. Craftswomen created and decorated headdresses for ladies, sewed clothes.
– Our city at the end of the IXX – at the beginning of the XX century experienced rapid development, it was called “Russian Chicago”. In the city, the detainees often have balls, the ladies closely followed fashion, departure and French magazines, ”Irina Taldykina, head of the department of scientific and exposition work of the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local Lore, told the City Heralds. “There was a large salon on the bridgehead, where you could buy almost everything, from clean underwear to a chic coat. Goods could be written out in a catalog, but many preferred to order clothes from seamstresses.
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Of course, every graduate of the Tsaritsyno gymnasium knows how to sew, but in order to get a chic dress for going to a ball, party or other celebration, you had to turn to professionals. The milliners appeared, of course, in France, but then this profession took root in Russia. Craftswomen, as a rule, called their salons by sonorous external names, and there was no end to clients.
“In the museum exposition, pay attention to the huge, incredibly beautiful Venetian mirror, its height is 2 meters 30 degrees,” Irina Taldykina processed the attention. – As soon as you start to peer into it, you feel beautiful and happy – this effect, apparently, comes from the fact that over the years many beautiful and satisfied women have been reflected. Another exhibition and my personal one is a size 48 mannequin made at the beginning of the 20th century. Note that he has a very thin waist and a magnificent bust. This application was discovered in the city of Dubovka in 1991 during an expedition. The mannequin lies in the attic in the house of an elderly woman who donated it to the museum. I don’t know if such specimens have survived at all in Russia. You look at it – and you feel the rustle of silk, ribbons and lace!
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules
The work of the creators of airy and delicate beauty was opened. 12 copies presented at the exhibition. One of them was made in Tsaritsyn by order of the Kohler trading house. Also on display are pre-revolutionary Anker, Singer, Pfaff and other models.
“They look solid, but it was difficult to work on such machines: the tailors hurt their arms and legs,” Irina Taldykina explained. “And what beauty the craftswomen received at the exhibition can be judged by the photographs of those years, which also include wedding dresses, as well as city and ball gowns. The latter is made of brocade and silk.
Also here you can see buttons, needle beds, scissors, caskets.
The exhibition will run until the end of April. It works at the address: Lenina Avenue, 5a.
Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / City Vestibules