Are you referring to what we call parkas: Hooded winter jackets or pullovers, often quilted or down filled? Yes, we have 'em.

Finlay Adams sang the line in question (as I recall): It hurt Lord Darnel sore. Lots of ways to skin a cat. People deeply immersed in an oral tradition seem to have a much greater retention of heard information. There was once an experiment done at the University of New Mexico, I've been told, in which a passage was read to students of Anglo-American background and students from Native-American (read: American Indian) cultures. Then they were asked to repeat what they could remember. The Indian kids retained much more information that the non-Indian. I wasn't surprised.

Sandy