Question

[~*~MizzQaqimat~*~]

Okay, lately I've been seeing the cloth dresses, with the buckskin frings on the yokes. If you do this, is it considered cloth or buckskin??

Chenoa

[Mato Winyan]

To me cloth

[nativewife]

My daughter's dress is like that.... I would consider that cloth.

What would you call it, tho, if someone wore a cloth cape, with hide fringe, and a hide skirt? A friend of mine has a dress like this. She has a beautiful velvet green cape, with light-colored hide fringe. She has two skirts to go with this. One is velvet green, and the other is the same hide that the fringe is made of.

[lightningflash]

There's a lot of women here in the NW who wear dresses with a cloth yoke, buckskin fringes and a buckskin skirt. And they dance with the women's traditional buckskin.

[dancnbrd]

I agree with lightning, buckskin fringe and skirt always dance in buckskin categories where I've gone. However, there is a particular dancer that I recall whose dress is satin with buckskin fringe and she competes in cloth.

[~*~MizzQaqimat~*~]

Thanks everyone!

[Miss_Nish]

In our area... they juss put all cloth/buckskin traditonal together.

I have a dress like this also. If they divided up the categories.. I would go into cloth. In schemitzun, women with dresses like this also went into "cloth." There was only one woman in the "Northern Traditonal" category without a beaded top. Her top was made of a pendelton blanket.. I guess. It looked really nice, too!! I hope they have the cloth category again in Schemitzun this year.