In Greenland, anoraks are formal wear, not fashion statements

‘When Jens-Frederik Nielsen wears his blue anorak, it is the equivalent of a European leader wearing a suit.’ Photograph: Sebastian Elias Uth/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

Your article (‘Designed for uncertainty’: windbreakers are a hit in turbulent times, 17 January) refers to Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, “wearing a glacial-blue windbreaker” that “took on a new, loaded and striking messaging”. The anorak is not a fashion statement or sending a message. It is formal wear, which we Greenlanders use for special occasions from weddings to a child’s first day of school and the state opening of parliament. When Nielsen wears his blue anorak, it is the equivalent of a European leader wearing a suit. Existing as a non-European person is not a statement.
Salik Rosing
Elsinore, Denmark

• Re the piece on windbreakers, I don’t want to be an anorak, but I think they used to be called “windcheaters”. I’ll get my coat…
Colin Parish
London

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