New Year 2013 in retro style - Glamius

The New Year is perhaps the only holiday that was devoid of ideological overtones during the Soviet era. The New Year was celebrated widely, with folk festivals, but monotonously, each year they hung on the Christmas tree the same toys, prepared the same dishes. Nevertheless, many of us experience nostalgic feelings for those unsophisticated times. Perhaps it is the anguish of childhood, but recently the New Year's celebration in retro style is gaining popularity, vivid evidence - the abundance of scenarios for celebrating the New Year in retro style. What is so attractive about the New Year 2013 in retro style? And how our parents were preparing for the holiday and celebrating it.

New Year of our parents

Christmas tree

The first problem is a Christmas tree. They too were in short supply. Christmas bazaars were opened only at the end of December, and a long queue lined up behind the trees. The men were equipped for the purchase, they had to stand the whole line and return home with the trophy. But often the tree was not enough for everyone, and it was necessary to return empty-handed. The Christmas tree deficit gave birth to such practices as the acquisition of trees directly through forestry. Sometimes it was easier than getting a tree in the bazaar. Another solution - artificial Christmas trees, but they were not very common, it must be said that they looked unimaginative, too "liquid": a column of plastic elements, into which four branches were stuck. The needles were imitated using a fringe of green color. To make the tree look more or less decent, it must necessarily have been decorated with "rain" - so fewer were striking too rare branches.

Decorated the Christmas tree, who, what could. It was only in the eighties that a tendency appeared to decorate spruce with balls of the same color, with bows. Prior to this turning point, everything that was at hand was on the way. Particularly multifunctional was cotton wool: it was made of snow, laid out on branches and downstairs of a Christmas tree, masking a wooden cross, suspended from the ceiling on threads. The children were attracted to the production of Christmas ornaments, they carved snowflakes from napkins with excitement, glued garlands of rings of colored paper. The control set of fur-tree toys was at all: gold shishechki, a crown «the Red star».Often, the mandarins were hung on a Christmas tree, wrapped in foil and candy in beautiful shiny wrappers, which were very rare. Yes, you yourself, if you are over 25, remember, perhaps, the fragrance of the New Year - a delicate tangerine smell. In Soviet times, the windows were painted with gouache mixed with toothpaste.

Gifts

In Soviet times, the shortage of goods was the most common thing, and it was possible to get something interesting, whether it was a Christmas tree decoration or overseas cologne, only through acquaintances, which is called "by blat".In general, in order to meet the New Year with dignity, it was necessary to work: run around the shops, ask friends, and establish contacts. Not at all what is now: there are so many goods in the stores that the eyes are scattered.

Gifts bought with battle. The fact that on the counters "thrown out" something worthwhile, was recognized by long lines, and usually first took the queue, and then found out what they were selling. Replenish a meager assortment of Soviet gifts was possible only with the help of their own talented hands.

Cooking

In Soviet times, New Year was celebrated with the family, then everything was very traditional. From pyrotechnics only Bengal lights and crackers were available, but they were also happy. Occasionally, it would happen through third-party hands to acquire rocket launchers.

On the tables in each house there was a "basin" with salad olivier, made according to all the rules - with pickled cucumbers, carrots and beef;the vinaigrette. Hot meat was served with a side dish, for example, the chicken was baked in the oven and served along with the mashed potatoes or made potatoes with meat in pots with spices and bay leaf. The highlight of the program was a jellyfish, invariably cooked on pork ears, with the addition of garlic. Fresh vegetables were not in Soviet times during the winter, but everyone was used to pickling vegetables: mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes. Mistresses passed on each other recipes, including a recipe for herring under a fur coat. Often on the festive table met today expensive serverlat and red caviar. And, of course, more than one New Year could not do without the Soviet champagne, it's not some Bosco for you - it's a Soviet brand.

We organize a retro New Year's Eve

This is how the New Year celebrated our parents, and we are already quite grown up in the memory of fragments of these wonderful memories. If something moved in the heart, it means that the New Year 2013 in retro style must take place. Get a live tree and dress it up as described above. Perhaps your mothers and grandmothers are still carefully storing Soviet Christmas toys somewhere on the mezzanine. Let the toys be multicolored, diverse in texture and shape, find a free space on the tree for several sweets in a bright wrapper. Bring your children to the decoration of the apartment, having taught them to make New Year crafts from their childhood: paper garlands, cardboard lanterns, serpentine. And if you decide to draw on the window glass of Santa Claus, let your child help him paint.

Bake a chicken in the oven, can be in foil or, putting on the carcass on a jar, cook the traditional olivier, only necessarily on the grandmother's recipe - without sausage, but with meat. You can even sprinkle sprats with your own hands. Remember, no shrimp, mussels, avocados. Of alcoholic beverages on the festive table must necessarily be "Soviet champagne", vodka type "Wheaten" and, perhaps, Cahors. If you still have crystal dishes, be sure to use it in the table setting. Crystal was an indispensable attribute of the Soviet festive table, like the "Soviet Champagne" in the New Year.

Gifts make with your own hands, or present something from the Soviet past: an album with postage stamps, for example. Be sure to accompany the gift with a postcard. If you accidentally kept the Soviet postcards - excellent, if not, then go to the post office and buy the most simple postcard, they are very similar to the Soviet ones.

Will end the New Year's entourage in the style of retro viewing unchanged "The Irony of Fate" and Soviet cartoons. Happy New Year!