[1] Others of this type include Catskin, Cap O' Rushes, Donkeyskin, Allerleirauh, The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter, The She-Bear, Mossycoat, Tattercoats, The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress, The Bear and The Princess in the Suit of Leather.
[2] A man puts away his dead wife's wedding gown, saying he would not remarry to a less pretty woman.
She demanded and got a dress the color of all the clouds that go by, and another of all the flowers that bloom; then she told him that she was his daughter Little Cat Skin.
In his 1987 guide to folktales, folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale, according to the international Aarne-Thompson Index, as type AaTh 510B, "A King Tries To Marry His Daughter", thus related to French tale Donkeyskin, by Charles Perrault, and other variants, such as Allerleirauh, Cap O' Rushes, Mossycoat, The Bear, The She-Bear and The King who Wished to Marry his Daughter.
[3] Researcher Isabel Gordon Carter collected and published a North Carolinian variant from Southern Blue Ridge.
She leaves home, takes the dresses to a dressmaker, and finds work as a queen's servant.
Due to her diligence, the queen becomes fond of her, and invites her to a big dance at a "club house", and promises to lend her some clothes for her to wear.
After she dies, the man, intenting on fulfilling his wife's vow, declares he wants to marry his own daughter, to the latter's horror.
She consults with her godmother what she can do to avoid it, and the godmother advises her to ask for some wedding gifts first: a "speakin' lookin' glass", a dress made of the hide of a jack, and a ring that can fit the finest bird of the air.
Still obeying her godmother's advice, she places the looking glass to answer for her on the wedding day, and leaves home wearing the Jackskin.
One day, the king's son spies through the keyhole and sees the Jackskin girl wearing a beautiful dress "the color of fair weather".