Nearly rectangular sheer lace sleeves with deep armholes. Butterick 3510, from January 1922.
While collecting images of 1922 tunic blouses, I noticed a parallel trend toward very wide sleeves — sometimes rectangular, sometimes funnel-shaped.
Butterick 3510 from February 1922, Delineator.
French designer fashion: wide, funnel sleeves on a gown from Molyneux, Photographed by O’Doye for Delineator, January 1922.
Sometimes they appeared on dresses that suggested the tabard worn by medieval knights.
A sheer under layer with a tabard-like opaque layer on top. Butterick 3508 illustrated in February 1922.
Butterick dress 3508, Delineator, January 1922.
Butterick patterns for teens, February 1922.
Often the sleeves of 1922 were made of sheer fabrics like lace or chiffon.
Dress for teens, Butterick 3474 from January 1922.
This inspiration for these patterns came from Paris couture.
Left: wide, sheer sleeves on a dress by Drecoll. Sketched for Delineator by Soulie, January 1922.
The Paris house of Madeleine et Madeleine showed this dress with sheer, rectangular sleeves that close tightly at the wrist.
Some have armholes that reach almost to the waist:
Butterick dress 3601 from March, 1922.
This Butterick pattern (3393) from December of 1921 cited French designer Jenny as its inspiration. Google image from Hathitrust.org.
Butterick Blouse 3532 from Delineator, February 1922.
Very wide, deep sleeves on Butterick 3406, 1922.
Those were very deep armholes, like pattern 3510:
A closer look at Butterick 3510. “Butterfly-wing sleeves.”
These sleeves were sometimes attached to a slip-like lining, rather than to the dress itself. 
Sheer sleeves could also begin from a dropped shoulder:
Left, a Paris designer dress from the House of Beer; right, the same sleeves on a Butterick sewing pattern. 1922.
Butterick 3479 with sheer sleeves. January 1922.
Of course, a very wide sleeve requires a coat to match:
Butterick dress 3465 with coat 3454. January 1922. The dress has a sheer lace bodice over a matching lining.
These enormous sleeves date to 1921-1922.
A dress with very full sleeves, Butterick 3841. 1922.
Funnel sleeves, 1922.
Another distinctive 1920’s sleeve, supposedly based on medieval or “Medici”costumes, was the “troubadour” sleeve, which was very wide — the armhole almost reached the waist — but which tapered to a tight fit in the lower arm and wrist.
Troubadour sleeves. Butterick blouse pattern 1174, from December 1926.
The troubadour sleeve was “a thing” in 1926. More about these sleeves in my next post.
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