Can you find a site with the St. Nick painting? It is possible (without seeing the painting) that it could be a wide guard or a replacement of a worn hem with different available material. De -----Original Message----- Mary Tudor's lady in waiting, and the girl on the right in the St Nicholas picture, don't appear to be tucking up their skirts in any way. (In the St Nicholas, I can't tell what her hands are doing, but her apron is lying flat). I'm intrigued, if this is allegorical or an artistic convention, why did artists want to show shorter skirts like that? Is it just that she's so poor, she's grown out of her gown ;-) ?
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