double relaitve clauses

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Have you used double relative clauses before?
The pretty girl who has braids and who is wearing a lustrous anorak is my daughter.
Can I connect the relative clauses using 'and'?

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Have you used double relative clauses before?

Can I connect the relative clauses using 'and'? You can, but native speakers would shorten the sentence. (omitting at least one "who")

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The pretty girl who has braids and [STRIKE]who[/STRIKE] is wearing a lustrous anorak is my daughter.
The pretty girl with braids and wearing a lustrous anorak is my daughter.
 

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You can shorten it further: The pretty girl with braids wearing a lustrous anorak
(I would change lustrous to shiny or something similar)
 

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Or, to shorten it further:
The pretty braided, lustrously-anorakked girl ...
 

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You can shorten it further: The pretty girl with braids wearing a lustrous anorak
(I would change lustrous to shiny or something similar)
But grammatically, in that sentence "wearing" modifies "braids". So in a different sentence with that kind of word order, confusion or hilarity could arise.
I would keep the "and".
 
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