What do Gnomes wear?

Gnomes are fun loving, full of pranks like the little fellow in the picture.  His wife is trying to see how much she weighs and he is holding his finger on the scale.  The adult male weights about 300 grams and the female slightly less, between 250 - 275 grams.

The females dress in long skirts and longsleeve blouses, usually in camouflage colours so as not to be detected by man or beast. Their pointed hat is also greenish to blend in with the underbrush. A gnome wears the same kind of clothing summer and winter.

The male wears a red pointed cap. Brown trousers that bulge at the side and long sleeved overblouse. A wide leather belt holds a tool pouch, containing a knife, hammer, drill and files. His boots are made of deerskin in the Northern countries. Or short boots made of birch bark, and yes even wooden clogs. In the house they wear felt boots to keep their feet warm. The adult male usually has a long grey beard.

Their skin colouring is generally fair with very red cheeks, the nose is straight and perhaps turned up. The eyes are mostly grey; the few differences are because of cross breeding with the Trolls and elves in earlier times.

The wrinkles in their faces are due to laughing. But can also suddenly look serious and the eyes are very penetrating. Gnomes do not see so much the material presence before them, but rather probe the real self and view the landscape therein to such an extent that no secret remain.

Like the eskimo habit of rubbing noses, the gnome uses that gesture as friendly greetings . This allows for a more penetrating look into each others eyes. They have no secrets from each other and have only to glance at someone in the distance and right away, they know what is happening in that person's life, the inner self.