Wool Breechclout
New! Added a rabbit skin photo from 2005 (see Rabbit Skin link below)
2004 Loincloth Photos
2003 Photos
Other Loincloth Pics (not included in 2004 or 2003 pages):
I don't know if I ever mentioned this (on the site, that is), but I always wanted to be a mountain man. I think it's the wildness of it, partly -- living in the woods and getting all of your needs from the woods. There's a big part of me that's feral, even though I'm trapped in suburbia. But another part of the mountain man thing for me is the clothes. And one particularly notable piece of clothing is the loincloth or breechclout.
White men heading off to the wilds of North America in the 1700s and 1800s often adopted many of the ways of the Native Americans who were already living there, since they were fine examples of how to survive in the wilderness. Fur traders and explorers often adopted some of the clothing that Indians wore, especially the leather items, deerskin, elkskin. How often this happened is a bit of a matter of debate. You can go to a historical reenactment today and see perhaps more white men in breechclouts than you would've seen in the 1760s. It's a romantic image, but there are some drawbacks to buckskin as a clothing material, particularly when it's wet. It's interesting to realize that while the white men were learning to live like Indians, Indians were adopting and adapting a lot of white men's clothing and accoutrements.
That's a lot of writing for what's supposed to be a picture page, huh? Anyway, to cut to the chase, I like wearing breechclouts -- like the look and the feel, like getting that much closer to nature. And, over the years, of course I've managed to get some pictures of me in breechclouts.
It is because I ran across these links recently that my interest in loincloths and breechclouts got rekindled.
updated February 13, 2006
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