Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
Four setts excluding the diced hose.

  • Younger - coat.
  • Elder - coat (the apparent difference in the sleeves is due to artistic licence, nothing more.
  • Elder - waistcoat.
  • Elder - kilt.
How do we know what is and isn't artistic licence when so little extant material survives? It's certainly possible that a wealthy lord could have a specific cloth made for sleeves. The child in question is around eight years old and it's possible that the sett used for the jacket wouldn't look as good on the sleeves. The younger boy shows the same sett for torso and sleeves so why would the artist make a mistake (or even just make up) in rendering the sleeves of the older and presumably more important/senior boy?