puff

Latest fashion, 1829

Dress with short puff sleeves, Amalie Auguste , JK Stieler , 1823

The puff sleeve is generally a sleeve with a heavily puffed width.

Bulky sleeves have been in clothing for women and men since the Renaissance . Small puff sleeves predominated in women's clothing in the early 19th century. In the Biedermeier period , the size of the sleeves increased, which were eventually puffed up to so-called leg and ham sleeves (also gigot sleeves after the French gigot for leg of mutton).

Today, puff sleeves are mainly found on dresses and blouses, with the width at the elbow held together by cuffs.

See also

• Clothing fashion of the restoration and the Biedermeier

Web links

Commons : Puff sleeves  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Entry sleeve . In: Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon . Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1973, Volume 2, p. 605.
• Erika Thiel: History of the Costume . 8th edition. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-260-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfons Hofer: Textile and Model Lexicon . 7th edition, Volume 2, Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, keyword “puff sleeves”. ISBN 3-87150-518-8 .