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Men's Frontier Buckskin Clothing
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Coats/Jackets | Pants |
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Important Notes
1. We use drawings for buckskin clothing and some accessories to better
emphasize subtle differences that would otherwise blend in with photographs.
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= Product patterned from original Euro- and Native American items or detailed descriptions in original journals
or research materials.
About Men's Frontier Buckskin Clothing ...
On the frontier and in small settlements on the frontier's fringes, the preferred material for buckskin clothing was
Indian tanned buckskin. Naturally, Native Americans preferred Indian tanned hides. They were
easier to produce and cheaper if you had to buy or trade for them. Indian tanned buckskin is also more
comfortable - being able to breath better than commercial tanned buckskin, since the membrane was removed
from both sides of the hide.
Native American men's buckskin clothing in the east was fully hand-sewn at least since the time of Euro-contact. In the west, though, their buckskin clothing was generally only sewn along the shoulder seam, around the arm hole, and for a few inches up the sleeve from the wrist. Breechclouts were also sewn together if they had to use more and one piece of buckskin to get the length they needed. The rest of Indian men's clothing was thonged together until the mid to late 1800's.
Except for the occasional independent mountain man (free trapper) who might adopt the Indian style of dress, Euro-Americans preferred their clothing to be fully sewn on all seams. Longhunters often adapted to the style of buckskin clothing of the Indian nation they were most familiar with. A frontiersman (think Daniel Boone or Simon Girty) generally preferred his buckskin clothing to resemble his Euro-style clothing. The mountain man's style of buckskin clothing was usually a blend of Euro- and Native American styles.
Indian tanned buckskin is already well stretched during the tanning process. Commercial tanned buckskin is not, and will produce a lot of bag and sag at the butt and knees after only a few wearings of the garment. Therefore, if you order leggings, pants, or a breechclout to be made of commercial tanned buckskin, we take the extra time to pre-stretch the hide(s) to minimize that stretching out of shape and size. Also, we do not lace or machine sew our clothing. Hand-sewing is all done with smaller authentic stitches to produce higher quality, more authentic buckskin clothing.
For More Info ...
Read our info articles about How We Make our buckskin products or the
article series about original buckskin clothing.
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