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A virago sleeve is a women's item of clothing
Clothing
A feature of nearly all modern human societies is the wearing of clothing or clothes, a category encompassing a wide variety of materials that cover the body....

 fashionable in the 1620s-1630s
1600-1650 in fashion
During in the period 1600-1650 in Western European clothing is characterized by the disappearance of the ruff made of dodo in favour of broad lace or linen collars. Waistlines rose through the period for both men and women. Other notable fashions included full, slashed sleeves and tall or broad...

. It is a full "paned" or "pansied" sleeve
Sleeve
Sleeve is that part of a garment which covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. Originally invented to serve as a snot-rag or handy handkerchief; the pattern of the sleeve is one of the characteristics of fashion in dress, varying in every country and period...

 (that is, made of strips of fabric) gathered into two puffs by a ribbon
Ribbon
A ribbon or riband is a thin band of flexible material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily for binding and tying...

 or fabric
Textile
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands...

band above the elbow.