Khanty and Mansi have seasonal clothing for the winter, summer and spring-autumn seasons. There is also a separate category of working clothes. Newer and more elegant clothes served as festive attire. Clothes could also be categorized by having or not having a cut at the front. The Khanty made clothes from different materials: deer fur, animal skins and paws, fish skin, suede (rovduga), cloth, cotton, less often silk.

<…> The outerwear of the Khanty and Mansi often included wrap-style garments. Those were cotton robes of the northern Khanty and Mansi, which were worn over shirt-dresses, Khanty and Mansi cloth robes during spring and autumn, Eastern Khanty robes made of cloth and other fabrics with skin linings of small animals (less often deerskin linings), Northern Khanty and Mansi winter clothing made of deer or other fur and men’s winter clothing of the Eastern Khanty made of one or two skins. Each had a unique cut and decorations.

Eastern Khanty <…> fur coats were also double-layered, however, the outer layer was made not of fur, but of cloth. The outer layer for cheap coats was made of thin fabric. Its main differences from the fur coats of the Northern Khanty and Mansi were that they were wrapped from right to left and fastened with a belt made of a wide strip of fabric, they featured a long and wide rectangular collar with hanging lapels, embroidered with inserts and beads (Lukina). Such a coat of a rich Surgut Khanty person had the outer layer made of cloth, the inner layer of squirrel paws, necks of loons and deer fur.