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Buckskins are clothing, usually consisting of a jacket and leggings, made from buckskin, a soft sueded leather from the hide of deer. Buckskins are often trimmed with a fringe – originally a functional detail, to allow the garment to shed rain, and to dry faster when wet because the fringe acted as a series of wicks to disperse the water ...
Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal – usually deer – tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin.
The words "fleece lined leggings" may make up the snuggliest phrase in the English language. These thermal pants look like activewear on the outside but are lined with soft, waterproof fleece that ...
Good additions. Anyone willing to talk about brain-tanning (the Native American process of conditioning buckskin with animal brains, in which the softening ingredient is lecithin)? I don't know enough about it. But I would disagree with the change in origin; the OED defines buckskin as the "skin of a buck" with citations back to 1433.
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Mountain man reenactor dressed in buckskins. Buckskinning is a branch of historical reenactment concentrating on the fur trade with different areas in the period of the Old West (approximately dated between 1800 and 1840).