If you can get a copy of Roy Strong's Elizabethan Icon book, there are portraits of sisters that are wearing the same dress but in a mirror image (one faces right, the other left). I think he suggests that paintings were made of something like this and the face put in to order.
Regina (too lazy to go down and up stairs for the book) > - > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume