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I occasionally come across really neat vintage bear skin boots, shark skin shoes, deer skin gloves, hakama and jackets for horseback hunting, but the sizes are all so tiny, and they are excluded from the official selection of 'traditional' Japanese wear that you can buy today. Which is a real shame. Deer skin hakama are something I especially like, working just like a cowboys chaps. And short deer skin jackets with cord ties instead of buttons look really neat, kind of lancer style. There's a rich heritage there ripe for reviving and mining for inspiration.
Fascinating read, all of it, @Big J but this is something I find particularly interesting as I've been wondering if such a thing as a leather hakama exists! Which I guess I now known. I've always loved hakama, ever since I bought one while still practicing Japanese sword fighting. I sort of wore them everywhere for a while but people'd give me weird look so I figured I must've looked as a damn hipster (even tho that was long before the term even existed, at least in the context of today) but the point is, they're really great, comfortable and in my opinion, nice looking pants.
Then again my taste in pants isn't all that healthy as my favorite pants in the world seen are the ones in the original Star Trek. Yeah, the bell shaped legs...