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Menswear
Workwear
Work coats, padded jackets
1960-1980
Jacket VDJ-12
Jacket VDJ-12
available
Padded vatnik jacket, made in former USSR
Pale black cotton fabric
Jacket is hardly worn with nice patina, it is faded out, there are some scratches, button holes are worn out, the padding has lost its shape
The vatnik or fufaika became symbolic of Soviet-era working-class attire, often made from coarse fabric and filled with cotton or synthetic padding for insulation