Object: Sleeve puffs
Date: c. 1829
Medium: Cotton
Country: England
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: 2023.28.1
DescriptionPair of down filled cotton sleeve puffs or plumpers, off white plain weave cotton, crescent shaped and gathered into wide self band around armhole and narrow band at upper arm
Label Text:Sleeve supports shaped the leg-of-mutton sleeves of the 1820s and 1830s. When voluminous sleeves returned to fashion at the end of the nineteenth century, such supports were considered obsolete. As an 1894 New York Times article declared, “we do not quite follow the absurdities of those sensible old days and wear bags of feathers upon our arms.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Statement Sleeves