The Russian army’s expensive new “designer” uniform has been criticised for being too thin after hundreds of young conscripts in Siberia kitted out in it fell ill with pneumonia and flu.
Parents of the sick conscripts blamed the army’s new uniform which was created, amid much fanfare, by the flamboyant Moscow fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin.
Mr Yudashkin, who is famous in Russia for dressing Kremlin wives, won a multi-million pound tender to give the Red Army’s successor a fashion makeover in 2007 after soldiers complained that their old uniforms made them look like they were serving in a poor developing country’s army.
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