Complex sentence: In the winters the houses were cold and drafty with few braziers, requiring multiple-layered clothing for warmth, the combinations of which became of almost ritual fascination to the women.
Split into simpler sentences: In the winters the houses were cold and drafty with few braziers, requiring the women to dress in layered clothing for warmth. Bowring (2005), xxviii The combination of layers became of almost ritual fascination to the women.