Here’s a story of liberal arts-types doing work that causes damage to the military. And for once, it’s not American lib-artists vs. the American military…
http://www.military.com/news/article/new-russian-uniform-gets-troops-sick.html
Russia’s sharp new military uniforms, created by a top fashion designer, have landed hundreds in hospital after proving too thin to withstand the ferocious winter cold, a state daily said Wednesday.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that between 60 and 250 servicemen have been laid up with everything from flu to pneumonia as Arctic chills sweep through the country’s northern reaches.
There’s a whole lot of failin’ goin’ on here. The fashion designer is a dumbass for producing such useless clothes; the Russian military has a whole bureaucracy full of dumbasses for accepting these uniforms.
See photos of these uniforms here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101215/od_afp/russiamilitaryfashionoffbeat
They look just…
6 Responses to “Fashionistas vs The Military”
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They probably were better off with the old style “Soviet” style uniforms.
No “probably” about it.
Good grief, they’ve forgotten that Russian winters are cold.
Jim
oh men, back to Tzar Empire
by the way, here picture of fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin (on left)
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20101215/capt.69389077e8a74d93b9c20a81fb5e8756.jpeg
(note how general in background looks angry…)
more on prototype “Napoleonic” uniforms presend on Yudashkin fashion show in 2008
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?156538-Russian-army-scraps-new-uniforms
ROFL
I like the ghillie suit in the bottom photo, where it looks like they tarred the guy and threw into a pile of turkey feathers. 😀
Russian army scraps new uniforms…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8029632.stm