Yagushka 🐺 The use of clothing created with animal skins is typical of Arctic populations. Here everything that nature offers is not wasted in any way. The furs are dried in the wind for days and skillfully sewn by women during the long cold season. It takes many layers to cover yourself adequately, in winter it can easily reach minus fifty degrees and when the wind is very strong, the three layers of reindeer fur that cover the small Nenets tents, are barely enough to make it through the night. Men and boys wear a wide, completely closed hood that slips from the head. It is called Malitsa or Parka, it is made of at least a double layer of fur, incorporates hood and mittens and reaches just above the ankles. It is from this very crude word that our winter coat takes its name. The woman instead uses a more elaborate and long fur, open on the front, whose name has a strong sound like the skins she is made of: it is the Yagushka. It is resistant and very practical, often decorat...