School uniform conforming to the new GOST, developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the Ministry of Education, looks like clothing from Soviet cinema of the 1950s

School uniform conforming to the new GOST, developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the Ministry of Education, looks like clothing from Soviet cinema of the 1950s. Indeed, the burgundy suit with skirt and jacket prescribed for girls, complemented by a lace tie-cum-jabot, is more reminiscent of the outfits of the elderly heroines played by Yevgenia Khanayeva, who, by the plot of the films, are nearing 70. Have you ever seen anyone wear a jabot nowadays, apart from Alexander Vasiliev and Karl Lagerfeld? Why does the appearance of children in the 2020s turn out to be copied from images 70 or 80 years old, and even then ones that were not quite up to date even in those years?

The classic dark blue suit with shirt and tie for boys I shall leave without comment: a man's suit is a man's suit.

One thing is clear for now: if manufacturers label clothing as school uniform, they will have to comply with the requirements of the new GOST and bring their designs into line with this tastelessness.

I support the very idea of a school uniform, as I have written more than once, but not when its cut is handed down from Moscow by bosses who have themselves long since gathered three layers of dust. Can it be that school education has so few problems demanding immediate resolution? Have we already managed to overcome the pauper's wages of teachers? Managed to restore the pupils' respect for their teachers? Smooth out all the bumps in the Unified State Exam? Settle the questions of ethnic ghettoisation and the criminalisation of the youngest generation? Why is it precisely the question of school uniform that is being settled at the all-Union level? Is some financial interest involved here, in connection with the manufacturers?