You guys may want to see;
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/art...lps_Stokes.jpg
you can see here that her feet are well behind and higher than her skirt, which extends forward and thus appears longer. If you look at the male he looks right-if you at the male and compare him to her they look correct together. It's the bottom of the skirt that stirs the remarks herein, I think.