Styles of Wedding Dress Sleeves [Part 1]

After your dress silhouette and neckline, the sleeve is an important part of your wedding dress that dictates the look of the dress and how you feel wearing it. For the records, the sleeve is the part of the dress that wholly or partly covers the arm. There are basically three sleeve styles from which the others spring – short, long or three-quarter. Recent trends have gone from short sleeves to baring it all. Since short sleeves are the in thing nowadays, it means it could be worn without considering the weather. However, I will not advise you to wear a long sleeve in a hot weather. Check out these seven styles!

• Bell – it can be long or short. It is narrow at the top (shoulder), and then the sleeve flares in a bell shape at its bottom edge
• Cap – a very short, fitted sleeve that just covers the shoulder and the top of the upper arm
• Poet – a long sleeve fitted from shoulder to elbow and then flares from the elbow to the wrist
• T-Shirt – looks like the sleeve of a T-shirt 
• Tank – a strap with literally no sleeves, revealing the upper arm 
• Petal/Tulip – it is a short set-in sleeve with overlapping fabric that curves into a petal-like shape; it criss-crosses over the top of the arm
• Juliet – it is a long or short wedding dress sleeve, with a puffed top and fitted lower arm  

Cap	Poet	Juliet
T-Shirt	Tank
Petal/Tulip	Bell