We Swedes are encased in clothes. Neckerchief, coat, waistcoat, trousers, stockings and vests are all done up tight – the tighter, the more elegant. The Lapps on the other hand have two lightly fastened garments: trousers, fastened at the top but no tighter than that they can be pulled up and down without undoing them; and a hide belt but, since the tighter it is the more uncomfortable it is, they wear it loose.