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Your tags on the Jane Dormer portrait!😂

What are those white bits down the center of her skirt? Some sort of closure? Extra hankies?

Those are slashing and puffing! It was a decorative technique in which you would make patterns of slashes in the overgarment, and then pull bits of the undergarment through the slashes.

Sleeves with slashing and puffing:

Henry VIII with slashing and puffing on his doublet and sleeves:

Apparently, it came from the German mercenaries called Landsknechts, who had THE craziest clothes!:

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