俄罗斯军人在换上了颇为时尚笔挺的新军装后麻烦随之而来。据悉，因为新军装材质太薄无法抵御俄罗斯冬季持续不断的严寒，目前已造成数百名官兵生病住进医院。

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Russia's sharp new military uniforms, created by a top fashion designer, have landed hundreds in hospital after proving too thin to withstand ferocious winter cold, a state daily said Wednesday.
Russia's sharp new military uniforms, created by a top fashion designer, have landed hundreds in hospital after proving too thin to withstand（抵挡，反抗） ferocious（残忍的，惊人的） winter cold, a state daily said Wednesday.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that between 60 and 250 servicemen have been laid up with everything from flu to pneumonia²（肺炎） as Arctic chills sweep through the country's northern reaches.

"They literally³ felt naked outside," the paper quoted the mother of one solider as saying. "Many of them ended up in hospital. Ours developed pneumonia," she said of her son.

The government daily said defense⁴ officials have admitted not receiving complaints about the uniforms in time to do anything ahead of the winter season.

"It seems that all this happened because of slovenliness⁵（邋遢，马虎） on our part," Joint⁶ Staff General Nikolai Makarov told the daily.

Introduced in 2008, the parade uniforms designed by fashion celebrity⁷ Valentin Yudashkin are threaded with gold and more shapely and chic⁸, in a throwback to the uniforms of the imperial Tsarist army.

The field versions, meanwhile, are lighter⁹ and come with thinner but more mobile boots.

Russia designed its first post-Soviet uniform in the 1990s, but it was unpopular with officers who complained that it made them look like they were serving in a Third World army.