'Melt the soap and apply to your face': 5 weirdest book tips for Soviet women
'23.10.2021'
Source: Letidor
If a handbag from mother’s or grandmother’s youth turns into a vintage over the years, then these tips are increasingly absurd and a relic of the past, writes Letidor.
Perhaps every Soviet girl had books with advice on how to become beautiful and feminine. Recommendations were regularly printed in magazines and on the pages of tear-off calendars.
Many parting words and life hacks do not stand up to criticism now. However, do not judge too harshly - most of them were dictated by the deficit and strict gender framework.
The authors searched through old clippings from magazines, books for girls and girls and found the most colorful.
Repaint clothes
Now it’s fashionable for stockings and tights to be the same color as shoes. However, mainly gray or beige are on sale. Can they be repainted? Yes!
Further, the author advises using either ready-made dyes, or a decoction of alder earrings, onion husks or ink.
Fashionistas of that time went even further. For example, to get the popular “arrow” stockings, they drew a thin black line right on the back of the leg. You put on beige stockings on top - and you are a queen!
After that, you can master the top of the style - independently “cook” jeans and a jacket!
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Starch fabric
Blouses and chintz skirts will look better and maintain splendor if they are slightly starchy after washing.
Sounds good, right? All you need is nothing - boil something like a paste of water and starch (100 grams per 5 liters), strain through a double layer of gauze and add to the water for rinsing. Recall that automatic washing machines did not exist then, so rinsing took place only by hand. And spinning, if there is no centrifuge, too.
Remain forces - you can starch table and bed linen!
Match the dress code
Everyone knows that the nature of the costume obliges and dictates a certain style of behavior and manners. If the skirt "balloon" fully admits liveliness, impetuosity, modern rhythms of rock, then the "tulip", on the contrary, creates some romance, it is good to spin in it to the sounds of a smooth waltz ...
Shorts took a strong place in the summer wardrobe of young people - of course, you probably should not go to them in public places, but you can’t find the best clothes for the beach or for work on the site!
These quotes perfectly demonstrate how strict the separation of outfits was. For the holiday - a beautiful dress, to school and work - a formal suit, out of town - trousers and sports shoes (sneakers). What would the authors of the council say when they see the current girls in a dress in the floor and sneakers? Surely, they would spin to the rhythms of rock.
Wash with soap and oil
Each skin type has its own care, but with the help of affordable means. And if you can still come to terms with the "Cucumber" and "Calendula" lotion, then with these tips - it is unlikely.
“If you don't have a cream, you can replace it with any oil - vegetable or butter, even margarine, sour cream,” one of the books for girls advises to owners of dry skin. It is also "useful to apply mayonnaise on the face for half an hour instead of cream - its composition is surprisingly suitable for cosmetic purposes."
Owners of oily skin are a little more fortunate - they are advised to wash with soap "Bannoe", "Forest" or any other and to clean the skin using a camphor soap cream.
To do this, you need to grate a piece of baby soap, pour a glass of water and melt. Add camphor alcohol, boric acid, hydrogen peroxide and apply all this splendor with a cotton swab - fortunately, no more than twice a week.
It is good to treat acne with soda - just sprinkle it for a couple of minutes, and then rinse off. And to remove black dots, you can make a scrub from salt and shaving foam!
Who suffered without a cosmetologist in self-isolation?
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To be economic
It is especially important to be able to cook.
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach" - this truth women have learned through centuries of trial and error.
Those who you want to be liked, perhaps, do not yet understand this themselves - after all, their mothers feed them, and mother's services are taken for granted. However, do not flatter yourself: a man can forgive a woman a lot, but not over-salted soup or burnt roast!
It is not surprising that all the books "for girls" contained a number of valuable tips: how to cook soup and the second, to mask flaws, to revive foods that have lost their freshness, to decorate a cake, and also to pickle cucumbers and tomatoes.
Sometimes the authors advised nevertheless to involve representatives of the stronger sex, but after that - they would certainly praise them for their labors. Just remember to turn off the roast in time!
