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1654 - 1669. Detail of "De melkmeid" (the milk maid) by Gesina ter Borch. Category: Women -- Clothing & Dress -- Netherlands -- 1600-1699. Dutch 17th century costume. This painting from the mid 1600s appears to show the same neckerchief + loose jacket + several skirts + apron combo seen on working women in the early 1700s, except the shape of the neckerchief is square here (probably a partlet.) Note how the apron strings are used to bundle up the skirts to make them shorter.