Vera is standing in a black coat and a black hat. She relishes hat, it is her favorite accessory. Before Vera was retired she had been working at the passport office in Volozhyin. Every time she had a business trip to Minsk from Volozhyn Vera bought hats.

The costume that Vera bought in the second-hand for the granddaughter's wedding.

Vera wearing the flower-pattern headscarf she had on when she first met her future husband, Sergey. She would wear it while walking about town with a friend and Sergey later told her that he always noticed it.

Vera in a suit and in a hat. Vera bought the hat when she worked at the passport office in Volozhin. Hat is a favorite Vera’s accessory

The skirt and blouse that Vera bought at the department store 10-15 years ago.

Vera is wearing the skirt which she turned into a dress with the straps. The shirt was sewn by her daughter during her military classes at school.

Vera bought this dress for her daughter, so that the money would not be lost after the collapse of the USSR. When her daughter got married Vera decided to keep the dress.

This is the pleated dress Vera gave to her daughter-in-law after the death of the younger woman’s mother.

Vera is standing in a wedding dress of her daughter.

Vera is standing in a dress, which she ordered to sew for her daughter in a atelier in Volozhin. She had to do it in order to be able to buy the golden fabric in the same atelier for her prom dress and sew the prom dress in an atelier in Minsk as Vera's daughter wanted to. In Soviet time it was a lack of places where you could freely buy unordinary fabrics to differ from each other. If you buy fabric in an atelier, you had to order the

Vera is posing in a dress that her daughter sewed at the school for a special course to get a rank of seamstress. Vera received pearl beads from her younger sister Galina, who brought them from France.

Vera is standing in a polka-dot dress. The fabric was bought by her sister Galina in France. In a Soviet Union's time was difficult to buy a beautiful fabric or dress. That's why people were inclined to sew dresses and also was difficult to find fabric like this. It was a time of deficit. Not all group of people had access to the shops where you could buy deficit goods.

This is the dress Vera’s future daughter-in-law wore when going out on dates with Vera’s son.

Vera is standing in her daughter's prom dress. She ordered to sew it in an atelier in Minsk. But the fabric for this dress was bought in another atelier in Volozhyn. If you bought fabric in atelier in Volizhyn it meant you had to sew a dress there. That's why Vera bought another purple fabric to sew a dress in the atelier in Volozhyn and then she was able sew a prom dress in Minsk.

Vera in her daughter’s raincoat.

There is a transparent white blouse and a skirt with ornament on Vera. Such white blouses were modern at the time of Vera's youth.

Vera is posing in a red jacket which her daughter-in-law gave her when Vera came back from a hospital after a tumor on Vera's arm had been operated.

Vera is standing in trousers, which she bought when she was in hospital because there all women were in trousers. Normally Vera doesn't wear trousers. She assumes that for her fits more skirts and dresses.

Vera is posing in a gray coat that her daughter worn during her first year at the university in Minsk.

Vera is standing in a dress with a woven belt, that was made by her father.

Vera is wearing a dress that was given to her by a friend who knew that purple is her favorite color.

This dress was a present to Vera from her daughter-in-law. Vera housed her son and his new wife and helped them raise their first child.

This dress Vera gave to her daughter-in-law after the death of mother.

The fur-lined overcoat that Vera bought as an investment to safeguard her money after the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991.

The blue dress, white scarf and sensible shoes that Vera has set aside to clothe her at her funeral, ‘so that in the next world she might be comfortable and beautiful’