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Dress Sense

Hmmmm....

There were an awful lot of women "passing" for male in earlier centuries, who - to modern eyes - looked indisputably female. I have a theory that it was because the gender barriers were drawn so much more tightly in past eras, so people expected people who wore trousers/breeches/trunk hose to be male, and generally interpreted what they saw in line with their preconceptions.

Cally, with her lean build and somewhat angular features, would probably be taken for a boy - or as you said, a castrati.

(from http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/115311.html)

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