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Capote (garment) The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes) A capote ( French: [kapɔt]) or capot ( French: [kapo]) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a ...
Canadian fashion refers to the styles, trends, design, and production of clothing, footwear, accessories, and other expressions of fashion in Canada and the polities it is descended from . Since time immemorial, the Indigenous cultures of Canada designed clothing and accessories for practical application in contention with the natural elements ...
The ceinture fléchée [sɛ̃tyʁ fleʃe] (French, 'arrowed sash') or ('arrow sash') is a type of colourful sash, a traditional piece of Québécois clothing linked to at least the 17th century (of the Lower Canada, Canada East and early confederation eras). The Métis also adopted and made ceintures fléchées (French-Canadian and later Metis ...
Danish farmer wearing traditional clothing, including red tophue In Scandinavia , caps resembling a typical knit cap with a pom-pom have been in use since the Viking Age and possibly earlier. The terms tophue ( Danish ), topplue ( Norwegian ), toppluva ( Swedish ) mean 'top cap', and refer to the pom-pom.
Women's traditional caribou skin outfit with amauti parka, trousers, mitts and long boots with side pouches. The back of the parka has an amaut or pouch for carrying a baby. From Baker Lake, Eskimo Point and Hikoligjuaq, west of Hudson Bay. Collected on 5th Thule Expedition, 1921–1924. Modern women's parka created by Inuk designer Victoria ...
We often find ourselves in search of that je ne sais quoi French women seem to have about them. “[While] there are many different French styles, French style is all about dressing casually and ...
History of Inuit clothing. Sealskin woman's parka discovered at Qilakitsoq in 1972, dated to c. 1475. Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of Inuit clothing extends far back into prehistory, with significant evidence to indicate that its basic structure has changed little since. The clothing systems of all Arctic peoples (encompassing ...
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French -speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term ...