Virago sleeve

Virago sleeve

A virago sleeve is a women's item of clothing fashionable in the 1620s-1630s. It is a full "paned" or "pansied" sleeve (that is, made of strips of fabric) gathered into two puffs by a ribbon or fabric band above the elbow.

ee also

*Sleeve
*1600-1650 in fashion

References

*Gordenker, Emilie E.S.: "Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture", Brepols, 2001, ISBN 2-503-50880-4


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