Her trademark was a carefully coiffed and lacquered tapir, elegant costumes and refined accessories that Polish women could only dream of. Stanisława Gierek was raised in a traditional Silesian family. She only finished six grades of school, she didn’t know any foreign languages, but she was considered an excellent housewife. She married Edward Gierek when she was 19. Soon after, they both emigrated to Belgium, where Gierek worked in a mine and she took care of the house and children. Their marriage lasted 64 years.
Stanisława Gierek was the “first first lady” of the Polish People’s Republic. There were legends about her passion for luxury
When they returned to Poland from emigration in Belgium, Gierek began political activity. They lived modestly until the 1970s, when Edward Gierek became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party.
There was a furnished room where a hairdresser did her mother-in-law’s hair, and in the kitchen there were two cooks working in shifts. But my mother-in-law still complained that it was too much of a good thing
– her daughter-in-law Ariadna Gierek in the book “The Red Princess”. This is somewhat at odds with the legend of the golden bathtubs in which Stacha bathed. She also had a great liking for marble, Persian carpets and Kossak’s paintings.
The fact is that it was his wife who took care of Edward Gierek’s impeccable appearance. Stanisława Gierek is today considered the “first first lady”. Gierek was one of the first leaders of the Eastern Bloc countries who was also photographed in private and in the company of his wife. Stanisława often appeared at his side, wearing elegant dresses, perfectly tailored costumes and floral dresses. The malicious joked that the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party was only afraid of Leonid Brezhnev more than his own wife.
Edward Gierek with his wife, Helmut Kohl and Heinz Schwarz in Linz Photo Stadtarchiv Linz am Rhein, flickr.com / CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED
Edward Gierek’s wife took care of her impeccable appearance. She was supposed to fly to Paris for a hairdresser
He seemed to thrive in this role. She eagerly posed for photos, waved, smiled and interacted with the crowd. Outfits and fashionable accessories, such as expensive handbags or strings of pearls, have become her trademark, as has her characteristic hairstyle: highly upholstered hair styled in check thanks to a large amount of hairspray.
– Staś’s grandmother always had backcombed hair. An entire ritual was associated with her hairstyle. The hairdresser came to my grandmother, carefully styled and varnished them. When the hair was finally styled, the grandmother slept sitting up so as not to destroy the intricate structure – said her granddaughter, prof. Stanisław Gierek-Ciaciura, in conversation. It was rumored that he dressed in Vienna and flew to Paris for a hairdresser every week. When Janusz Rolicki asked her about the rumors about her hair, she did not hide her indignation. – Mrs. Stanisława then looked at me like I was stupid and answered the question with a question: “Do you believe in such nonsense?” Then she added: “Am I an idiot to cause my husband this kind of trouble?” – .
Source: Gazeta
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