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Sherpa is a curly piled fabric structure made of synthetic yarns like acrylic or polyester. The texture is soft and fluffy, useful in jackets resembling wool or sheepskin on the piled side. Sherpa fleece is a knitted type of fabric usable in line clothing and winter wear.
The Sherpa people (Standard Tibetan: ... Sherpa clothing resembles Tibetan clothing. Increasingly, home-spun wool and silk is being replaced by factory-made material ...
The suede side is usually worn outward. Real shearling breathes and is more flexible, much heavier and the fur is much denser than synthetic. Synthetic shearling fur is typically called sherpa. Synthetic or fake shearling has a bit of a sheen to its outer side, while real shearling outer hide is dull and a bit tacky to the touch.
A modern down parka with faux-fur trim on the hood. A parka, like the related anorak, is a type of coat with a hood, often lined with fur or fake fur.Parkas and anoraks are staples of Inuit clothing, traditionally made from caribou or seal skin, for hunting and kayaking in the frigid Arctic.
Sherpa, a 2022 book by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari; Sherpa (emissary), the personal representative of a head of state or government in the G20 or G7; Sherpa (fabric), a fabric with a pile on one side; Sherpa, a 2015 documentary film; Sherpa Fire, a 2016 wildfire that burned in Santa Barbara County, California
UGG is an American fashion company primarily known for its sheepskin boots, founded in 1978 by Brian Smith in California. [2] UGG also sells apparel, accessories, [ 3 ] and home textiles. [ 4 ]
This 19th-century book illustration copies a 12th-century English image of a man wearing a hooded tunic. The garment's style and form can be traced back to Medieval Europe when the preferred clothing for Catholic monks included a hood called a cowl attached to a tunic or robes, [6] [7] and a chaperon or hooded cape was very commonly worn by any outdoors worker.
Young woman wearing a chuba. Elderly pilgrim, Tsurphu, Tibet. A chuba (Tibetan: ཕྱུ་པ, Wylie: phyu pa, THL: Chuwa, ultimately from Arabic: جبّة, romanized: jubba) is a warm ankle-length unisex robe bound around the waist by a long sash worn by many of high-altitude nomadic pastoralists in the Himalayas.