I had guessed it was the first woman in each series of pictures. Mainly, because her dress was more complex to make than the dresses of the other two women.
Anyway, a portrayal of historical events (such as in a play or in a painting or a film) often says more about the fashion of the day the portrayal was made than about the fashion at the time of the events it is picturing.
This summer I visited a church in Germany where they showed a set of stained glass windows that depicted the life and times of a woman that left her home, did a lot of good works and became a saint. The woman had lived in the 6th or 7th century, but the first set of windows had been made in the 13th, and as a result, she wore 13th century fashion. (As did all the saints in that church as it was 13th century.) A few years ago an artist was asked to make a new set of stained glass windows depicting the same events. And in true style of depicting someone in the fashion of his day, he gave the woman a knee length skirt.
There isn't actually a whole lot of information of what people wore in the 6th century, how they dressed. Most comes from guesses made centuries later. And according to Terry Jones, making the people of the British Middle Ages puritans is one of the things the Victorians did for us.
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Anyway, a portrayal of historical events (such as in a play or in a painting or a film) often says more about the fashion of the day the portrayal was made than about the fashion at the time of the events it is picturing.
This summer I visited a church in Germany where they showed a set of stained glass windows that depicted the life and times of a woman that left her home, did a lot of good works and became a saint. The woman had lived in the 6th or 7th century, but the first set of windows had been made in the 13th, and as a result, she wore 13th century fashion. (As did all the saints in that church as it was 13th century.) A few years ago an artist was asked to make a new set of stained glass windows depicting the same events. And in true style of depicting someone in the fashion of his day, he gave the woman a knee length skirt.
There isn't actually a whole lot of information of what people wore in the 6th century, how they dressed. Most comes from guesses made centuries later. And according to Terry Jones, making the people of the British Middle Ages puritans is one of the things the Victorians did for us.