Fashion Secrets of the Stasi

The Daily Mail ^

[AfricanChristian]

For a profession as covert as theirs, you might have thought the Stasi would kit out their spies with an inconspicuous wardrobe to aid them in their secretive work. However far from blending in, a new exhibition has revealed that operatives from the secret police of former East Germany looked astonishingly like, well, spies. Dodgy fashion secrets of the Stasi show how they seem to have taken a leaf out of the book of many a Hollywood screen spy.

[caver]

That is funny!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Kind of reminds me of this old Wendy's Commercial;

Soviet Fashion Show

[Pollster1]

Spies and traitors can't help looking like what they are.

[dfwgator]

Speaking of commie spies, notice the guy on the left with the camera, look familiar?

[Ernie Kaputnik]

No. Who is he?

[dfwgator]

Vladimir Putin.

[troy McClure]

PUTIN

[I Shall Endure]

I’ll go out on a limb and guess it’s a young Vladimir Putin.

[dfwgator]

I dunno I thought this jacket was pretty sharp

[I Shall Endure]

The spy clothes are pretty funny, but I’m not sure how much the fun comes from their being East German (and for spies), and how much comes from the 70s being a generally tacky decade.

[TheOldLady]

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[SnuffaBolshevik]

"....and how much comes from the 70s being a generally tacky decade."

[ExGeeEye]

Photo taken in Moscow.