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Message:: [QUOTE="Debora, post: 9613803, member: 1476"]I'm puzzled buy that skirt length which would place it well out of the Victorian period.  If I had to guess, I'd think 1950s but could be a tad earlier I suppose.  Hemlines didn't begin to rise until the 1920s but the silhouette was long and lean with a dropped waist.  [ATTACH=full]468798[/ATTACH] They went down in the 1930s and didn't rise again until just before World War II but the silhouette was v-shaped, waisted but with a strong shoulder. [ATTACH=full]468800[/ATTACH] In the 1940s, they maintained the strong shoulder but went way up to accommodate the war's fabric restrictions.  As soon as the war was over, shot way influenced by Christian Dior's New Look. [ATTACH=full]468799[/ATTACH] They remained long until the late 1950s when bodice's were waisted with a rounded, more natural fit.  That's what I see in your painting.  Of course, the female figure could be wearing traditional costume but it tends to maintain traditional lengths and resist fashion's changes to hemlines. [ATTACH=full]468801[/ATTACH] Certainly appears to be the work of an amateur painter but one with some artistic training. Debora[/QUOTE]