Comanche women wore buckskin moccasins with buffalo soles. During the winter months, men would commonly wear deerskin tunics and leggings with moccasins. They made buckskin shirts, ponchos, skirts and moccasins and decorated them with colorful beadwork. Women wore long dresses of buckskin and moccasins. This included buckskin or cloth leggings, moccasins, and breeches of Indian design. Additionally, both sexes might wear buckskin leggings and moccasins in cold weather. Underneath the dress, they wore leather leggings with ankle-high moccasins. From the hides, tunics, dresses, buffalo-fur robes, moccasins, gloves, loincloths and leggings could be made. Elaborate moccasins and leggings complete the regalia. Boots being an unknown quantity, some wore shoes and some moccasins. Like moccasins they are soft-soled. Eastern tribes also valued moose leather as a source for moccasins and other items. Women and men wore puckered-seam, ankle-wrap moccasins with earrings and necklaces made of shells. They had typically dyed or painted the soles of their moccasins black. Whites believed the Indian children could not be civilized while wearing moccasins and blankets.