On May 4, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Bella wrote:
I think it's an optical illusion. What at first looked to me like
an opening in the skirt, I now believe to be a blackworked
handkercheif/small towel pinned to the waist.
Yes, it's a muckinder.
Melanie Schuessler
At 03:17 05/05/2008, you wrote:
On Sunday 04 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg
What in the world is going on with that child's skirt? Did the artist
decide after the fact that the skirt should be split, with a forepart?
Would trim
http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg
What in the world is going on with that child's skirt? Did the artist
decide after the fact that the skirt should be split, with a forepart?
Would trim really have been applied diagonally and interrupted?
Emma
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
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg
What in the world is going on with that child's skirt? Did the artist
decide after the fact that the skirt should be split, with a forepart?
Would trim really have been applied diagonally and interrupted?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [h-cost] What in the world? Odd 16th C. child's skirt
http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg
What in the world is going on with that child's skirt? Did the artist
decide after the fact that the skirt
On Sunday 04 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/KatherineGrey.jpg
What in the world is going on with that child's skirt? Did the artist
decide after the fact that the skirt should be split, with a forepart?
Would trim really have been applied diagonally
On May 4, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Bella wrote:
I think it's an optical illusion. What at first looked to me like
an opening in the skirt, I now believe to be a blackworked
handkercheif/small towel pinned to the waist.
D'oh! I see it now. :)
Margo
