So there appeared some uniform dressing styles and typical dresses that were prevalent to an astonishing degree, such as the Lenin dress and patterned cotton coat which could represent this tendency. In early years of new P. R. China, Sino-Soviet Union relationship was close, so in China you could also see men wearing cricket cap - Soviet Union's worker's cap, and women wearing the Lenin dress. The so-called "Lenin dress" is a kind of diamond cloth double-breasted suit with a straight collar and sometimes with a cotton belt of file same color and two hidden pockets in the middle of lower part of front garment piece. Actually Lenin dress originally was not Soviet Union women's dress. Soviet Union women as well as other women in East Europe mostly wore skirts. Because it signified agricultural and industrial revolution, Lenin dress became the new dress style that symbolized the national renascence. Because its design was new and it could show the wearer's advanced thoughts, Lenin dress became the typical dress for governmental unit's female working staff.
Figured cloth cotton coat was also a sign of farmer and worker dress. Historically, this dress was the most common winter clothes for Chinese women and it has a long history. But in new China, the dressing way of figured cotton coat carried revolutionary meaning. Cotton coats made by scattered small flower patterned cloth of bold colors (mostly with red) were mainly the winter clothes for girls or young girls before 1950s. Adult women mostly used silk or satin as the surface materials of the cotton coat. Women from poor family used plain color cloth. After the foundering of new China, traditional Chinese fabrics such as silk or satin seemed to carry strong feudalistic sense, so working women or female students abandoned satin and used flower pattern cloth to make their cotton coat to show their nearness to farmers and workers.
