I find it hard to believe that they would have applied trim like that. My best guess is that the skirt is too big for the child and the front openings were folded back on themselves, but why they would do that for a formal portrait is beyond me. Who knows, there's probably some terribly important symbology in it.
It also looks like the child is wearing a linen smock with a band of blackwork embroidery, no forepart or petticoats, which I haven't seen before. Margo On May 4, 2008, at 6:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
