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Protective Layers of Footwear
The Inuit wear from two to five layers of footwear depending on the temperature, ground conditions, and activities they perform.
"I add more layers of inner and outer stockings, slippers, and boots until my feet are warm enough for whatever I am doing. I use more layers if I’m going ice fishing and fewer layers for inside."
Elva Pigalak, Coppermine, 1986
Here are four possible layers of footwear in the order that they are put on - inner slipper, outer stocking, boot, over slipper.
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