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STYLE OF DRESS. 



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off square, and is usually Confined by a girdle at the waist. Under this 

 garment is worn ;i similar one, usually of lighter skin and sonietinu s with 

 out a hood. The thighs are clad in one or two pairs of tight-fitting knee 

 breeches, confined round the hips by a girdle and usually secured by a 

 drawstring below the knee which ties over the tops of the boots. On 

 the legs and feet are worn, first, a pair of long, deerskin stockings with the 

 hair inside; then slippers of tanned sealskin, in the bottom of which is 

 spread a layer of whalebone shavings, and outside a pair of close-fitting 

 boots, held in place by a string round the ankle, usually reaching above 

 the knee and ending with a rough edge, which is covered by the breeches. 

 Dress boots often end with an ornamental border and a drawstring just 

 below the knee. The boots are of reindeer skin, with white sealskin 

 soles for winter and dry weather, but in summer waterproof boots of 

 black sealskin with soles of white whale skin, etc., are worn. Over 

 shoes of the same material, reaching just above the ankles, with a draw 

 string at the top and ankle strings, are sometimes worn over the winter 

 boots. When traveling on snowshoes or in soft dry snow the boots 

 are replaced by stockings of the same shape as the under ones, but made 

 of very thick winter deerskins with the flesh side out. 



Instead of breeches and boots a man occasionally wears a pair of 

 pantaloons or tight-fitting trousers terminating in shoes such as are 

 worn by the women.. Over the usual dress is worn in very cold weather 

 a circular mantle of deerskin, fastened by a thong at the neck such 

 mantles are nowadays occasionally made of blankets and in rainy 

 weather both sexes wear the, hooded rain frock of seal gut. Of late 

 years both sexes have adopted the habit of wearing over their clothes 

 a loose hoodless frock of cotton cloth, usually bright-colored calico, 

 especially in blustering weather, when it is useful in keeping the drift 

 ing snow out of their furs. 



Both men and women wear gloves or mittens. These are of deer 

 skin for ordinary use, but in extreme weather mit 

 tens of polar bear skin are worn. When hunting in 

 winter it is the custom to wear gloves of thin deer 

 skin under the bearskin mitten, so (hat the ritle can 

 be handled without touching the bare hand, to the 

 cold iron. The women have a common trick of wear 

 ing only one mitten, but keeping the other arm with 

 drawn from the sleeve and inside of the jacket. 



The dress of the women consists of two frocks, 

 which differ from those of the men in being con 

 tinued from the waist in two rather full rounded 

 skirts at the front and back, reaching to or below the knee. A woman s 

 frock is always distinguished by a sort of rounded bulge or pocket at 

 the nape of the neck (see Fig. 52, from a sketch by the writer), which is 

 intended to receive the head of the infant when carried in the jacket. 

 The little peak at the top of the. hood is also characteristic of the 



;. 52. Womans hood. 



