TALK about vintage. This waterproof hoodie is more than hundred years old. Worn by Inuit in Greenland, it’s made of the guts from the seal.

It is called an anorak. Thanks to a special waterproof stitch, it protected the Inuit (also known as Eskimos) against rain and snow. They used nerves or guts for stitching. It only gave protection against the rain and snow and it was worn over jackets made of fur. In the 1920ties western clothes replaced the anoraks.
The life of Inuit depended on making good clothes. As a result they invented the parka, a heavy jacket with a hood, often lined with fur. The word parka was first used by the Aleut Inuit of Alaska.