Robin, maybe you can clear this one up for me, I've never been clear on it...
I haven't been able to find anything in 14th c. art that shows a detachable sleeve. Or how one might be attached (pins?), presumably to an underdress, but maybe not. But there are references to sleeves as separate garments all over the place (in literature as tournament favors, listed as separate items in the Great Wardrobe, in the Datini correspondence in Italy, etc. etc.). I don't know if I'm just not seeing something because illuminated images are tiny and can't show everything, or if I'm understanding "a pair of sleeves" as a modern person, or just haven't looked in the right places. Any insight? Astrida
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