"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?"
Well, I don't think you could possibly find an evidence for such sleeves in
illuminations, because you can never tell whether the sleeve under the short,
often peaked sleeve is a part of an underdress or a separate sleeve. The
attaching method would not be visible as well, because it must have been done
from the inside - I'd guess by strings like in the renaissance. I think pins
wouldn't work well.
But this is just a hypothesis:-)
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