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A Historical Tidbit: The Language of Sleeves In the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, sleeves were one of the most important elements of clothing used to display wealth

The right materials create smooth lines while wrong fabrics highlight every curve

Lest we forget it was the same kind of gender blurring fashion moments that helped make Prince and David Bowie style icons

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Later, Elizabeth Taylor became known for her glitzy get-ups that more often than not left little to the imagination

Meanwhile, the invention of synthetic dyes added new colours to garments and women experimented with gaudy and bright colours