Reindeer-skin boots principally for one's kin, surprisingly (8)

I believe the answer is:

finnesko

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'reindeer-skin boots' is the definition.
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'principally for one's kin surprisingly' is the wordplay.
'principally' says to take the initial letters.
'surprisingly' indicates anagramming the letters (a surprising ordering of the letters).
The first letter of 'for' is 'f'.
'ones'+'kin'='oneskin'
'oneskin' anagrammed gives 'innesko'.
'f'+'innesko'='FINNESKO'

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