InterestedReader wrote:I love it! Who can say if she resembles Lizzie?
Though, the clothing and hair certainly
post-date 1892.
I was hoping you would make a comment regarding her clothes. Determining the date of a person's clothes is not something I have a talent for, so, I appreciate the fact that you do. Approximately what year do you think the woman’s dress and hairdo would have been in style?
There are a couple of reasons I really don't think this is a picture of our Lizzie:
1. The photo description states that the picture was taken a few years
before she is accused of murderering her father and step mother... So, if the clothing is actually dated
after 1892, then this woman is not our Lizzie.
2. The woman in this photo is NOT wearing a hat. Lizzie testified at the inquest that when she returned from the barn, she went into the dining room and laid down her hat.
Lizzie inquest testimony page 77 (Underlining and highlighting are mine.):
Q. When you came down from the barn, what did you do then?
A. Came into the kitchen.
Q. What did you do then?
A. I went into the dining room and laid down my
hat.
Source:
http://lizzieandrewborden.com/wp-conten ... nquest.pdf
If Lizzie put a hat on to just walk to the barn, then I am sure she would wear one to go to the beach. Weather this picture was taken before or after 1892, wearing a hat would have been something that Lizzie would have learned at a young age, and she would have most likely continued to wear one whenever she went outside for the rest of her life, and that would include walking along the beach.