Woman with footless hose, 16th century

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Look at this cool engraving by Lucas van Leyden. It looks like the milkmaid is wearing trousers under her skirt. It's most likely however that they are footless hose, like her male companion is wearing. Hose for women are known from both the middle ages and the early modern period, while trousers or drawers are, with the exception of a few italian example who belonged either to the aristocracy or to courtesans, unknown in this time. And this is neither Italy, not the upper classes. Footless hose, on the other hand are mostly depicted on lower class people.
He also shows footless hose on a woman in a print of a group of beggars, again showing the very low social groups that these belong to. But I haven't found that print on the internet.