Posted on 12/16/2010 6:30:58 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Russia's too thin 'designer' uniform leads to pneumonia and flu
The Russian army's expensive new "designer" uniform has been criticised for being too thin after hundreds of young conscripts in Siberia kitted out in it fell ill with pneumonia and flu.
By Andrew Osborn, Moscow 6:00AM GMT 16 Dec 2010
Parents of the sick conscripts blamed the army's new uniform which was created, amid much fanfare, by the flamboyant Moscow fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin.
Mr Yudashkin, who is famous in Russia for dressing Kremlin wives, won a multi-million pound tender to give the Red Army's successor a fashion makeover in 2007 after soldiers complained that their old uniforms made them look like they were serving in a poor developing country's army.
But parents said that the uniforms, which were debuted at a grand Red Square military parade in 2008, had put fashion before practicality.
"On the street they (our boys) literally felt naked," a relative of one of the soldiers told the government daily newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
"They gave our lads army boots made from fake leather with cardboard inner soles, socks, and light clothing clearly not suitable for winter."
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Oh, baby!
Seriously.
The fact that cold does make germs inactive is borne out by the low amount of colds caught in an artic environment.
The folks blaming the uniforms for elevated pneumonia and such are probably full of BS. Heck, I doubt if conscripts are even issued this uniform on any general basis.
Opinion!
The fact that cold does make germs inactive is borne out by the low amount of colds caught in an artic environment.
Or is it that there just are not so many people in the Artic environments
Zardoz!
Ironic they now have the same problems the Germans had in WWII: snazzy uniforms that couldn’t stand up to the Russian winter.
Correlation does not equal causation, as this entire article may demonstrate.
1) The model in your first pic is more appropriate for a DADT thread, and
B) The uniform in your first pic was USMC, when the thread was about Russian uniforms.
You admirably and fully compensated for the first image with your last three postings.
My eyes thank you!
I’d let her pat me down anytime. “Comrade, is that an ICBM in your pocket?” “No, I’m just happy to see you :)”
In Soviet Russia uniform puts you on.
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