Virago sleeve

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Bodice with matching virago sleeves tied with pink ribbons, worn under a black short-sleeved gown, 1631.

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.

[edit] See also

• Sleeve
• 1600-1650 in fashion

[edit] 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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