garment has been a subject of disputes since it was discovered.
From the skeleton remains of the person buried in this dress, is
was estimated that the owner was approximately 160 cm tall, and
rather strongly built, which suggests it was a man. However, the
sex could not be precisely estimated. Norlund, the scientist
from the excavating expedition, thought this was a mens garment,
based on the pattern. However, later on the dress appeared in
the literature as a woman's cotehardie because of its
closefitted sleeves and big circumference of the bottom hem. We
believe that it was a man's dress, for the following reasons. A
woman's cotehardie would have to be very close-fitted to the
body, which this garment does not satisfy. First, its
circumference around the waist is close to 1 m. Secondly, it has
no buttons, so it had to be put on through the head, so it could
not be close-fitted. The garment was cut with scissors on the
back from the neck down, but that was a usual burial practice to
fit a stiff corpse into