#yahgan

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Yahgan people on the Isla Bertrand in the Fuegian Archipelago, Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard, mailed in 1903 to France

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Question (and please keep the answers fairly simple I’m not a huge textiles guy): has there been a lot of cold environment cultures with non-fitted outfits?

I was thinking about this because it seems to be a growing trend among students to just bring blankets to wear to school when it’s cold*. And while there’s some cultural wear that uses skirts, kilts, robes and such as outerwear for cold weather outfits, a lot of it is fitted. Yes, keeping warm via trapped air is helpful but so is movement that doesn’t require you walking in a certain way so you don’t open a hole to the cold air. I’m especially thinking of Inuit peoples, where it seems that pants have always been a thing.

*im not sure if it’s a fashion choice or if it’s like. Their parents can’t/won’t buy them fitted warm articles of clothing and so blankets are one size fits all and can be layered etc. 

Now, I do know that the Yahgan people** historically just wore robes or went nude while covered in fats to stay warm. Going by Ushuaia’s coordinates (port town of the southern tip of South America, aka Tierra del Fuego) they were about as far south as Unalaska of the Aleutian Alaskan Islands is North. So not the coldest place you could go south, but still pretty damn cold and windy. And the Unangax̂ (Aleut) peoples wore fitted clothing.

**The Southernmost Indigenous people in the world. Prior to sub-Antarctic colonization by Europeans, no one had lived any further south. By the way, there’s another group with a similar name so I mean those who live in Argentina and Chile

I imagine access to plant textiles vs. skins affects these things, as well as wind - I think animal materials were historically better at keeping wet and wind out when you don’t have wax or other such treatments ? - but yeah.

TLDR: Generally cold weather cultures seem to have fitted clothes, but is that an accurate assessment of the majority?

@answeringmysister you might have some thoughts on this?

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Yahgan woman in Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard

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Made in Chile: Yahgan Audio Lab estrena equipos para escuchar música

Made in Chile: Yahgan Audio Lab estrena equipos para escuchar música #Yahgan

Ya están disponibles en nuestro país los primeros equipos de música de audio análogo de Yahgan Audio Lab, marca chilena de equipos de sonido de alta gama que busca hacerse un espacio en el mercado del sonido Hi-Fi y diseñados en Chile.

En la ciudad de Limache, región de Valparaíso, se ubican los talleres donde se elabora y se fabrica la primera serie de equipos de audio analógico de alta fidelidad

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Mamihlapinatapai, derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. x

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Parole #1

"Mamihlapinatapai è una parola in Yahgan, la lingua degli Yamana della Terra del Fuoco. Il vocabolo è noto per essere una delle parole più concise e di difficile traduzione al mondo. Il termine descrive l'atto di «guardarsi reciprocamente negli occhi sperando che l'altra persona faccia qualcosa che entrambi desiderano ardentemente, ma che nessuno dei due vuole fare per primo»."

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