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As a recent college grad in the chaotic days of post-Soviet Russia, Eve Conant learned to dress with radical abandon.
In the months following the breakup of the USSR, the best shopping in Moscow could be found only in what the Soviets called "government universal stores." I was 21 when I walked into my first one, rubles in hand and a serious mission in mind. I had to buy something to keep up with all the gorgeous and ultrafeminine Russian girls who had become my new friends. Each of the store's three floors felt as drafty and welcoming as an airplane hangar; I even saw birds nesting in a crumbling stairwell. But the store was filled with Muscovites shopping for, ...