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Buckskins

Buckskins are clothing

Clothing

A feature of all human societies, except perhaps the most primitive, is the wearing of clothing or clothes, especially in public. The primary purpose of clothing is functional, as a protection from the weather....
, usually consisting of a jacket

Jacket

A jacket is a type of sleeved Hip - or waist-length garment for the upper body. For clothing older than the 1850s, a distinction is often maintained with a coat , but in many instances the terms are now interchangeable....
and leggings

Leggings

Leggings are any of several sorts of fitted clothing to cover the legs. Originally leggings were two separate garments, one for each leg.In contemporary usage, leggings refers to tight, form-fitting trousers that extend from the waist to the ankles; in the United States, they are sometimes referred to as tights ....
, made from buckskin

Buckskin (leather)

Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal, usually deer, moose or Red Deer or even cowhide tanned to order, but potentially any animal's hide,....
, a soft sueded leather from the hide of deer

Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae . A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order even-toed ungulate are often also called deer....
or elk

Red Deer

The Red Deer is one of the largest deer species. The Red Deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia....
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Buckskins are clothing

Clothing

Jacket

Leggings

Buckskin (leather)

Deer

Red Deer

The Red Deer is one of the largest deer species. The Red Deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia....
. Buckskins are often trimmed with fringe

Fringe

Fringe may refer to* Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world* Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia's premier arts festival that is the second largest arts festival in the world...
(originally a functional detail, to allow the garment to dry faster when it was soaking wet because the fringe acted as wicks to soak away the water, or quill

Quill

A quill pen is a writing implement made from a flight feather of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, metal-Nib bed pens, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen....
s.

Buckskins derive from deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
. They were popular with mountain men and other frontiersmen for their warmth and durability. Buckskin jackets, often dyed and elaborately detailed, are a staple of western wear

Western wear

Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th-century American Old West....
and were a brief fad in the 1970s.

Famous wearers

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