The Red Army Choir - Examples of Uniform Transition

[Greg Collins]

The first photo shown at the beginning of the thread (posted by Synthesis) depicts the organization as it was in the DVD "Red Star" of which I own a copy. I also had some concern about the differences in the uniforms worn by male personnel, female personnel, and the conductor. Recently, I obtained a book covering the uniforms from 1917 to the present and, lo and behold, the uniforms in that picture and the DVD were worn concurrently just prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union. I do, however, think it "weird" that uniforms between the officer and enlisted ranks, as well as those between male and female personnel, differ so much in other countries; but I've been around fairly extensively both as a civilian and as a sailor and I know a lot of countries follow this practice.