The Khanty people dressed smart. The summer clothes were made of fish skin processed in a special way. For the skin-currying they used cod-liver oil or liver and dry ashes. Shirts, trousers and overalls made of fish skin are waterproof and very durable; such clothes are good for hunting, fishing and all the kinds of housekeeping. Nowadays the Khanty people make summer clothes of cloth, sateen, printed cotton, and of fish skin they make sacks for foodstuffs.

The winter clothes were made of fur. They were processed with smoke and painted with the mixture of ochre and cod-liver oil to make them waterproof.

The Khanty women wore different adornments including the so-called kosnik, ear-rings, pectorals and rings. Kosnik represented a stripe of fabric embroidered with glass-beads. In the ends of kosnik there were tassels consisting of several stripes also embroidered with glass-beads and decorated with such things as metal pendants, rings and beads. Kosnik was put on this way: the middle was applied to the back of the head, and its tails were plaited into the braid. Ear-rings were bought, but sometimes they were made of glass-bead threads with small copper balls in the ends. As pectorals they wore glass-beard threads with large beards or a suede semicircle embroidered with glass-beads and small buttons. All the fingers were ringed. Preferably the rings were made of white metal.