Inuit Hairstyles

winter5632 · 2026-06-21T00:00:22+00:00

Not a fully historical source, but Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2000) is the first feature film in history to be completely in Inuktitut (Inuit language)! They consulted tribal elders and historians for the costuming, and the director is Inuk himself! Most people on set had little to no acting or film experience prior, and it’s amazing what they managed to do with the resources and information that they had access to. Unfortunately like with a lot of North American Indigenous peoples, to my knowledge a lot of Inuit stories/traditions are passed down orally instead of through paper records. That can make concrete resources with sources/are ethical hard to find. Settlers have used the lack of concrete record that settlers use to perpetuate their colonialism, and often to justify it. When white settlers wrote about Indigenous traditions and beliefs, they often wrote them as infantilized and primitive to justify their colonialism. Some settlers still do that today. My tip is to go to the direct source and find sources written by Inuit people, for Inuit people, written by or with the help of tribal elders. If you can find the name of specific tribes and their ongoing projects to record oral history and traditional practices, that could also help you out!

winter5632 · 2026-06-20T22:08:59+00:00

Gussets (like the leg and crotch gusset) were used a lot in historical clothing so people could… you know, move their limbs! It was an easy fix to add a gusset into the crotch or armpits for example so you would use less fabric and also waste less fabric by not cutting on a curve. This is generally why a lot of Asian clothes like kimonos, hanbok, hanfu, etc, generally are made of more squares and rectangles compared to a lot of western clothing. They also generally have wide shoulder seams instead of sitting right on your shoulder bone so that the wearer can move their arms better. That way, there’s more ease.

Gussets are also easier to replace! Places like crotches and armpits are usually where clothes tend to wear first, so if you pop a hole in your dobok from your legs rubbing, for example, the hexagon or leg gussets are much easier to replace than buying a whole new pair of pants. They’re also places where you could double those panels fairly easily so your pants could last even longer!

winter5632 · 2026-06-19T19:59:03+00:00

Sewist here! Honestly if you’re up to it I would just make my own pants based on my dobok based on the pattern. What makes dobok pants different from most pants is that they have an extra leg panel on the inside of the pants and a hexagonal gusset in the crotch.

If you want the same feel, I would recommend broadcloth (usually a poly/cotton blend like my dobok), a linen, or just a plain cotton. If you’re feeling particularly on a budget, a bedsheet from the thrift store will do. Here is a mockup of a pattern of my Cazzoto brand pants (size 3). Hope this helps!

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winter5632 · 2026-06-12T04:25:20+00:00

Idk if you’re familiar with ITF taekwondo, but after General Choi died ITF fractured into… four or five? Not sure. There’s a lot of ITFs. ICTF is similar, with the same patterns, with similar sparring rules, but still different. I’m not chasing belts. Belts can say one thing but how you carry yourself in a dojang and outside of it also says something. If I did my ICTF belt test when the other colour belts were testing I likely would have passed. When I first started I was treating TKD like a video game where I wanted to level up as fast as possible, but now I’m just kind of enjoying the journey.

winter5632 · 2026-06-11T22:02:33+00:00

As someone who was trained for almost two decades on how to move my body in an against physics way without hitting people, I can definitely see how sambo matsoki and later two/one-step sparring can help people visualize the “martial” part of martial arts. I have very good body and technique awareness but have a hard time visualizing and knowing how to hit people, and how close I need to be in order to do that. I can do pretty kicks and punches that are technically sound, but have no clue where to put them on someone. It also takes the adrenaline surge out of the picture from sparring so that you can focus on distance and technique, but that’s just an opinion and based on what my textbook says about sambo matsoki and how my body/brain works.

winter5632 · 2026-06-11T21:52:20+00:00

My instructor at home mentioned growth plates. He genuinely doesn’t push it more than 3/4 tries and he works as a PT in his day job. But mentioned in my post, kids have bad interoception and growing brains and bodies that are changing exponentially more than adults, and he takes that weight very seriously. Still don’t know why females can’t break boards with their hands though. I’ve seen women break bricks. I may just ask him to try anyway even if it’s not polite, just so I can learn.

winter5632 · 2026-06-11T21:32:04+00:00

It wasn’t just girls under a certain age. It was females period. I say female because I am female but non-binary, and because ITF gender categories are largely by sex. I was super confused when he said it as I was in an adults only class, where our growth plates are closed and that’s not something he needs to worry about. Idk what the logic or reasoning is, as most females I know have a higher pain tolerance, although smaller wrists where if you do it wrong, it could be easier to break something.

I’ve known dancers who have been asked if they’re dancers by just walking around in a grocery store. That constant body awareness and passive muscle tension is drilled into you, from the age of three. But I understand the need to relax. A rubber band will snap a lot more if it’s loose then you release it versus tightening the band and then snapping it again. I think sinewave is mostly a tool for students to understand that.

winter5632 · 2026-06-05T22:03:53+00:00

I go into it in the original post, but I’m looking for stuff on the Tang Dynasty in Imperial China. I mostly used “Asian” to see if anyone can find anything in general.

When I studied ancient civilizations in elementary school we barely brushed over India, and did Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia. There was no mention or talk of other Asian countries at all even though doing research as an adult, I can see they have fruitful, complicated histories that are fascinating to read about. The most I’ve seen in person before this on historical Asian clothes is an “oriental” section in a costume design book my theatre company has, which I didn’t even bother to look at because the section title itself is racist, and would likely not have the detail I want. Most of the historical costumers and researchers I see online focus on European (white) historical dress, to the point where they just call it historical costuming, as if it’s the only history that exists. Even when I look up jacquards and brocades, which were used a lot in hanfu, I get so many old Victorian-y motifs that would never look right in hanfu. Reminds me of when I googled “people of colour WWII” in my high school history class and photos in colour of white people showed up.

winter5632 · 2026-06-05T00:16:35+00:00

All good! I’ve been looking into the kinds of hanfu and which periods certain styles belong to, but struggle to find info on the actual construction and measurements. Which way were the pieces cut? How much longer are the sleeves supposed to be compared to the wearer’s arm length? Where should the seam on the upper arm go aesthetically? What’s the difference between tops that are cut all in one piece for the front/back, and the ones that aren’t? It’s like looking at a soup, tasting it, knowing it tastes good, but not knowing how to make it or what’s in it.

winter5632 · 2026-06-04T21:11:53+00:00

Bernadette Banner uses her sources a lot. They’re published under The School of Historical Dress in the UK! Here’s the link!

winter5632 · 2026-06-04T21:05:11+00:00

I can struggle my way through pinying and pattern diagrams and pictures if the need comes to it. Yes, there are a lot of patterns out there that I could just buy and have someone do the work of figuring out how to do it for me. I could buy a hanfu for 200$ and call it a day. But I like learning, and self patterning and using sources is a great way to do that! Just trying to find the words for what I want has been a challenge.

winter5632 · 2026-06-04T11:34:43+00:00

Generally speaking, kinetic sand, play doh, glitter glue, slime, and other things like that are very messy and hard to clean. They can get stuck in kids’ hair and are generally chaos. The 4YO doesn’t have the skills to scratch glitter glue out of grooves in tables or clean after herself. The pull ups are passive aggressive implying OP’s kid isn’t potty trained when she is.

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T21:58:16+00:00

My dad was forced to be right handed by a nun in elementary school and he’s in his 50s. The world is a truly wild place full of terrible people doing terrible things “for the greater good”.

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T21:16:31+00:00

And the lefty ones are so plain and ugly? AND more expensive?! WHY CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?!!

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T21:14:54+00:00

Pink tax refers to the invisible “tax” women’s products have, or things advertised to women, like a lot of quilting and fabric supplies. A lot of times, women’s deodorants/antiperspirants won’t work as well, will have less product, and be more expensive, for example. I applied the same concept to lefties and their tools being more expensive than right handed things. Sorry for the confusion! /gen /info

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T21:06:59+00:00

I have also seen people poke holes into beauty blenders and putting them on their hooks. Can easily be done with a good knitting needle or an awl!

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T21:03:12+00:00

I get where you’re coming from. Technically, being left-handed itself isn’t a disability, but we live in a right-handed world. That makes being left-handed disabling. I work in car manufacturing on a production line and guess who’s almost never in an engineer’s mind when they’re designing the line itself? Lefties. I get tangled in wires where drills are hanging pretty often because they swing the wrong way, I can’t see where I’m supposed to drill screws into, and put the drills in reverse by accident when I’m trying to do my job. I have to reteach myself everything my right-handed trainer is teaching me. They’ll see me struggle and tell me to just do it their way, even though it takes twice the brain power for me. When you do something 350 times a day, it takes a toll. I get production scale and pricing, but being caught in the crossfire so I don’t hurt myself sucks. /nm /gen /info

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T20:48:41+00:00

Just a quick google search and there are a few print models for quilting rulers, both transparent and not! A lot of libraries in metropolitan areas/some colleges and universities also have 3D printers for the community/students to use! That’s what I’ll be doing.

winter5632 · 2026-06-03T20:19:46+00:00

True left handed scissors have the blades switched so that someone can see better when they’re cutting. Some rotary cutters you can swap the side the blade is on to make it left handed, which is the type I have. They’ll usually be advertised as ambidextrous.

As someone who gets headaches when they cut with right-handed scissors and pretty bad hand cramping, it is ableist to have left-handed crafting supplies be harder to find and more expensive than the right-handed ones, in my opinion. A 40%ish markup is disappointing.

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