Help in dating this lovely lady, please.. COMPLETED

[Greensleeves]

I agree with Igor and  Wiggy, there is something somewhat theatrical about the stance, the eyebrows, the shoes.....

[tilly56]

I agree with you more and more.... I've been having a closer look at the photo and I think that I can see trousers - they just show at the bottom of the skirt.  Can't see any trace of whiskers, though, so obviously someone quite young... Interesting!!  I wonder whether it is my grandfather, although he was a Quaker and I'm not sure that is the sort of thing he would have done!! Curiouser and curiouser

Tilly

[baggygenes]

I'm glad someone else said it .. my initial reaction was is it a woman?  it was the feet that made me wonder - not just the size and the shoes but theres something about the stance ..  and as you say theres a hint of possible trousers there

[tilly56]

So I now have a drag queen in my family tree!!

 

[Wiggy]

Well - makes life interesting doesn't it!!!   

You don't want to be dull and boring.   

[Greensleeves]

The subject does look quite young, possibly adolescent.  Wonder if 'he' attended a boys' school and took a female role in the school play.   

[tilly56]

Lady Macbeth, maybe!!.... although white wasn't really her colour!

I have just shown the photo to my daughter and boyfriend - they agree it is a man and sincerely hope that, if he is an ancestor, his genes are well and truly worn out!!... I think he is quite cute

 

[Treetotal]

It's the stance that is the give away...very masculine...a lady wouldn't stand feet apart and there is a comic expression to the wry smile..."Don't take me seriously...please" 
Carol

[tilly56]

Hi Carol,

I thought that, too, about the feet apart..... and now my husband has announced that there is a definite  family likeness...Oh dear!!  I have decided that it could well be my grandfather....a Quaker, Rachebite drag queen, must be rare!!

Tilly