Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain: A new book explores how Czechoslovakia’s communist regime used fashion to further its ideological aims

A new book, Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain, released by Grada and
Prague’s Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM) has taken on the task of
mapping
fashion in Czechoslovakia from 1948 – 1989, a period that followed the
Second World War, the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, a brief
window of democracy and freedom and itself was marked by 40 years of
totalitarian rule.