Fashion history repeating….

A cape sleeve is a short or long loose sleeve, hanging free of shoulder. Medieval age is the era when cape sleeves were very popular. Isabel of Valois, as a fashion icon of medieval age, is one of the queens who wore them (pic2.)

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As the bodice silhouette is tight, the sleeves are the object of interest. Their length in many cases “touches the ground”. With walk they wave alongside the body as a “smell of a man” :-)).

The cape sleeves are also modern nowadays.

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Do you have dress with cape sleeves in your wardrobe?