From Joey Flowers' counter-chronicle of Inuit life, the tumblr Folks Dressed Up Like Eskimos:
Here’s a picture of my Mom and Me. I’m wearing my standard-feature Hilfiger jeans, black blundstones, a different Club Chasse et Peche t-shirt than the one I wore in the other picture below, my North Face jacket, my Pat Metheny Orchestrion baseball cap, and my Dolce and Gabbana glasses. Mom’s wearing a Columbia coat, some pants that were donated to the women’s shelter, where my Mom works, and some unknown brand sneakers and glasses. She is carrying a cane which she purchased at the drug store, and uses to help her walk around.
Below, a photo of Joey's aunt Annie. (Folks Dressed Up Like Eskimos, h/t @brendankoerner)
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Beautiful. People just being who they are, the way they want to. Quite a lesson here . . .
That said, have you seen the temps up in the Alaskan interior recently? On Facebook, my high school friend who lives in Fairbanks said she had to go out and feed her livestock (chickens and pigs), and she went from standing by the woodstove on one side of the window out into the subzero cold, experiencing a temperature change of 100 DEGREES.
Yeow! Give me those old military-issue bunny boots any day! No wonder they all wear Carharts coveralls up there.
We have bunny boots from the old days in northern WI and MI! But lately in New England it hasn't even been cold enough in the winter for me to abandon my Merrell trail shoes. Ah, the good old (cold) days....