Chuvash women used to wrap multiple layers of cloth around their lower legs because they thought that it's better to have thick legs (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44817):
Vaimoilla sitä vastaan on omituinen pukunsa, joka kesällä on sangen yksin-kertainen, nim. paljas paita, ulottuva polvea alemmaksi, jalassa virsut samoin kuin miehilläkin ja sääret samoin käärystellyt, mutta hyvin monin kerroin, sillä kuta paksummat sääret tschuvaschilaisella hemmettärellä on, sitä viehättävämpänä pitää hän itsensä, joka ihmeellinen tapa löydetään myös ei ainoastaan Tscheremisseillä vaan muillakin Suomalaisilla, niinkuin Vatjalaisilla Inkerin-maassa ja, Kreutzwald'ia myöten, Pleskov'an Virolaisillakin.
Translation:
On the contrary, the wives have their own peculiar dress, which is rather simple in the summer. It consists of a bare shirt which extends below the knees, and of bast shoes which are also worn by the men. The lower legs are wrapped like among the men, but in a very large number of layers, because the thicker lower legs a Chuvash belle has, the more attractive she considers herself. The same peculiar custom is not only found among the Cheremises, but also among other Finns, including the Votes in Ingria, and among the Estonians of the Pskov region as far as Kreutzwald.
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