Sleeve focus thread

[Koen G]

Another manuscript with relevant fashion: BNF fr. 357. I have a feeling it should have been mentioned before but my searches didn't turn anything up. It's been given a placeholder date 1301-1400 but allow me to adjust this to the early 15th century (I'd say 1420's rather than earlier).
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What about the dress on the nymph in Gemini? That one seems special, polkadots and all. The guys seem to wear similar to male gemini, with one adding buttons or cuff links or string or some decoration to the sleeves, but the dress does not have the flowing sleeves and has a different design with panels, maybe fur?

Good question. To be honest I haven't given these dresses much thought since the figures are so very small and only partially visible. So we have to do even more interpreting than usual. Additionally, these drawings are particularly messy; it looks like they were first drawn in the nude with exposed breasts/nipples and then have clothes added over them. In some cases with the notorious thick paint... 

The ones in Gemini are clean, though still small and without much detail. For example, the woman has only one sleeve drawn at the wrist. 
Some properties of her dress are a pattern, round neckline and no wide sleeves. All of these are easily found in MSS that also feature the sleeves so typical for 1400-1430.

   

But once again, it's a shame these drawings are so unreliable (small, altered, rushed/unfinished...). Otherwise we'd have much more to work with.