I was doing some bell-belt online searching today, and found this
marvelous image from 1430:
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-c-1454.z
Note the two ties holding the skirt of the houp closed! I'd never seen
that before, although I (and probably others) have theorized that they
What nationality/county is the painting?
unusual cuff on the under garment.
De
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I was doing some bell-belt online searching today, and found this
marvelous image from 1430:
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-c-1454.z
Note the two ties holding the skirt of
otsisto wrote:
What nationality/county is the painting?
unusual cuff on the under garment.
Dutch, I belive. There's more text at the website -- higher up the
tree as it were. Websearches on her name turn up a lot, too. The
draped undersleeve like that is seen in several other paintings
