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Why I hate hetalia Belarus design:
a confession of a person with a partially Belarus family.
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Because it's a literall tracing from the soviet school uniform.
The soviet school uniform had started as, in fact, an analogue of the gymnasium uniform of tsarist russia. Even small experiments with the style or length of the dress were strictly punished by the school administration. In addition, it was obligatory for girls to wear braids with bows. No haircuts were allowed.
It was troublesome for the girls to wear those uniforms. Snow-white cuffs and collars had to be removed every week, washed, steamed, and sewn back into place. The apron was worn black with a brown dress. It did not look very spectacular, but it protected the clothes from ink stains. On holidays, they wore a white lace apron, so it was necessary, for example, to go to the line on September 1.
My mom, who was born in the 80s, said, "There was a terrible poverty back then. Now you have the opportunity to wear different clothes, but we had one brown dress, which we took care of as best as we could. My mom hated it because it quickly got "bubbles" on the bottom that couldn't be ironed, so she made steaches on the fabric to make a pleating, washed, dried, ironed, and then ripped the steaches off. Every time. Like a good mom, she wanted me to look fashionable, so she bought different guipure collars and cuffs and also sewed them on and ripped them off, sewed and ripped. Teachers were surprised by how clean I looked, but it was just hours of hard work. The dress was from a pretty warm fabric, a wool, so it was quite hard to study during spring or early autumn - it just was very hot, and girls got sweaty fast.
We also had pins: the average ones and cool ones. The average one was a metal star with old ugly Lenin on it. The cool one was from transparent plastic - and it had a baby Lenin on it. It looked like a little angel surrounded by flowers, so it wasn't that ugly. My mom once, miraculously, changed my average pin to a cool one somehow."
Soviet school uniform is just another symbol of the russian regime.
Мне балюча глядзець на гэты гвалт і скрыўленне
One of my top fav vocaloid songs. I mixed my style with the music video’s style. I’m thinking about drawing these two again! ♡
A little doodle of Matryoshka Belarus
