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kaftan
thumb|Kurdish people|Kurdish man wearing a kaftan. Illustration by [[Max Karl Tilke published in Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors (1922), Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi.]]
sarafan
thumb|A peasant girl wearing a sarafan (1909), by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
valenki
thumb|right|Russian valenki
papakhi
The papakha is a sheepskin hat worn by men throughout the Caucasus and also in uniformed regiments in the region and beyond. thumb|A Caucasus|Caucasian wearing a papakha
kokoshnik
thumb|250px|The portrait of an unknown girl in the traditional Russian clothing by Ivan Argunov, 1784, showcasing a large kokoshnik head dress.|alt=
burka
rough raincoat
bast shoe
ancient form of footwear of northern Eurasia
puttee
thumb|Close-up of a World War I era United States Army infantryman's puttees thumb|A member of the Women's Land Army wearing a waterproof coat, [[sou'wester and puttees]] A puttee (also spelled puttie, adapted from the Hindi paṭṭī, meaning "bandage") is a covering for the lower part of the leg from the ankle to the knee, also known as: legwraps, leg bindings, winingas and Wickelbänder etc. They consist of a long narrow piece of cloth wound tightly, and spirally round the leg, and serving to provide both support (as a compression garment) and protection. They were worn by both mounted and dismo
kosovorotka
thumb|right|160px|Men's kosovorotka.
wadmal
thumb|Wadmal army jacket from the Hälsinge Regiment. thumb|Girls' wadmal dress right|thumb|Faroese postage stamp with a picture of a Viking helmsman in a wadmal tunic. Wadmal (Old Norse: ; Norwegian: , 'cloth measure') is a coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, and the Orkney, Faroe and Shetland Islands from the Middle Ages into the 18th century. Wadmal was woven on the warp-weighted loom used throughout these areas of Norwegian influence, and was usually a 2/2 twill weave, although some medieval sources outside Iceland describe wadmal