Women's dagged sleeves - parallels?

[Koen G]

bi3, that's not necessarily true. For example, this woman appears to me to have a similar hair-hat situation going on, but she's certainly no farmer:



"Detail of Leontion, a female Epicurean philosopher from Ancient Greece, from Des Cleres et Nobles Femmes, anonymous French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus, Paris, c. 1400"

Here, like in Marco's example, it is rather the man who is wearing a more sleeve-relevant garment. But these houppelandes were much more gender-fluid than we are accustomed to in modern times. If I understood the chronology correctly, the type of sleeves our VM women are wearing even originated as a garment worn by knights over their armor.