I think the plaid jacket.

Snowmobile boots are on the list somewhere, as are those mustard - coloured coveralls worn for work outdoors in winter. 

Let's not forget the little ones bundled up in their snowsuits and looking wider than they are tall.

i bought a beautiful amauti this past fall, so i gotta go with that.

i'll see if i can find a picture of myself in it...

Just for the record in an amauti the baby is inside the actual coat not the hood

I'd add Sorel boots as traditional too!

shorts with parka in fall. never want to give up summer.

Our Lords and Saviours

Our Holy Symbol

Just a Self-writing poem,

Inannawhimsey

Otterators are standing by (it is VERY hard for them, you know) while the dreaded Jacob Two-Two WC disease is dealt with.

Please stand by.

Just a Self-writing poem,

Inannawhimsey

has to be a photo with a tim's cup in hand.

has to be a photo with a tim's cup in hand.

A yellow ski-doo helmet and mittens

I was hoping someone would post Bob and Doug MacKenzie!  And the woman would wear the same. Inanna, yer a real hoser eh! Take off eh!

My hubby has a pair of Sorel boots. I guess he's Canadian now! I had a really groovy pair that were my mom's, yellow leather & white fake sheepskin lining, with laces. They were so cool. Kindof a cross between a snow boot and a mukluk.

Sighs, would love to see your amauti! Thanks for that. You see that sort of thing in the tourist shops, which I think makes it quite a good candidate for the national costume. But I think we are large enough to have regional costumes...

A northern one

A central Canada one

Western and Eastern...

There's also the thought of what the occasion would be for the use of the costume. If we are folk dancing, or having a grand ball, parade or what are we doing in our national costumes?

Can you imagine attending a national costumes extravaganza where all the other countries are represented in fine, embroidered folk dress, and there we are in our parka, plaid shirt, Sorel boots and toque? Oh dear! ; )

Oh yeah!! Bob & Doug!!!!  Absolutely!!

Now, my boy was to dress up in national costume for a school assembly.  We are in a very multi-cultural school, so it meant something beyond his normal jeans and t-shirt.

He used a doe-skin jacket with simple fringe and a blue jeans and a warm hat (not quite a Bob&Doug toque).  It wasn't particularly First nations style, more trader style, which suits our history more - mostly 5th generation or more Canadians from British/French backgrounds.  It stood out in his class of saris, hijabs, kimonos etc.

I tell you, when they read their reasons for being glad to be Canadian, and the little girl said, "I'm from Somalia, and I'm glad to be Canadian because I get to go to school," I choked right up.  3 Cheers for the Great White North!!

Hey, I just noticed that Bob and Doug's jeans were ironed!  Look at that crease!

Definitely not Canadian....

Awww. I would choke up too Birthstone. I remember when we did that in my elem school. I wore my dirndl, and the boy I liked dressed as a cowboy, saying his family had been here several generations. He wore jeans and a plaid cowboy shirt.

I like the fringe doeskin jacket idea.

Ninjafaery, agreed!!