Sounds like maybe that word vorot is a cognate of the one in Pokrovsky Vorota. I can at least imagine a similarity in meaning. I think a kosovorotka like Savva Ignatevich’s with suit jacket or sports jacket would fit in well with recent styles — I wouldn’t mind wearing one of those myself if people of kraut ancestry are allowed to wear them — but I haven’t seen anything exactly like that where I live.

I suppose I shouldn’t have used Ignatevich as a standalone word, since it looks like a patronymic and not a family name.

I think the first time I saw a white summer suit in person was July 4, 1976, when Hubert Horatio Humphrey was campaigning for president. He was wearing one of those when he gave an old-fashioned stemwinder of a speech at a city park where our family had gone for the day’s celebration — all day and well into the evening. I didn’t care to vote for him, but I liked his suit.

John

It is a “kosovorotka” that means a slanting neck: kosoy + vorot = kosovorotka.
Really, this sort of shirt is Ukrainian and Russian clothes, but the design we see here (and that was worn to 1960s, I suppose) it’s a stylized thing, not an original ethnographic one.

As for the “see-through dress hats”, I saw the same during my childhood in late 1970s – 1980s in Ural (!), at summer season, of course. But these hats went out of fashion, so only the pensioners wore such hats.