Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

THE TOILETTE IN RUSSIA.

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divided into two tresses, which fall down upon the
shoulders, with a necklace like that worn by the
Tartars.”
The Kamtschatkians, though belonging to Russia,
have a different dress; and being a very uncivilised
people, residing in a wretched, dreary country, desti-
tute of culture, their costume is more fitted for warmth
and comfort than for the display of elegance, variety,
or taste. They still wear the skins of dogs, deer,
sea and land animals, and even the skins of birds.
Very often all these are sewn together, forming a
tout-ensemble as ugly as it is extraordinary. Their
upper garments are made in two ways. Some-
times the skins of which they are formed are of an
equal length, at others they are left long behind, like

a train, with wide sleeves that reach
to the knees, and a hood, which in
bad weather they put underneath
their caps ; there is an opening in
this dress just large enough to
pass the head through, and round
it they sew the skins of dogs’ feet,
with which to protect their faces
in cold weather. The skirts and
sleeves of this dress are orna-
mented with a border of white


i dog-skins, and others of different

, colours, sewn together in patterns.

They generally wear two coats,
the under one with the hair in-

wards, the other side dyed with alder, and the
outer one with the hair uppermost. For this latter