Production of clothing in post-war Chisinau

The author of the article comes with new information selected from archive sources and field research with reference to the clothing of the population of Chisinau in the first postwar decades. The garments from these times had the elementary role of „dressing” the majority of the population in order for them to become an identically dressed mass. In Chisinau were concentrated most garment workshops, a tradition well known in the interwar period, where tailors were working, following fashion trends and offering customers fashionable pieces. In 1947 opens the first fashion house in 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, stylized folk costumes were produced to represent a synthetic national costume, imposed by the authorities on the population of the Moldovan SSR. In this context, the Moldovan SSR Clothing House was just one element of the network of similar institutions, which appeared almost simultaneously in the capitals of the Soviet republics and in large cities on Russian territory. The assistance provided by the institution by expanding the offer has contributed to the development of the service providers sector consisting of workshops aimed at making custom-made clothes and national costume pieces.