Today’s theme is flares! Flared sleeves, flared pants, flared everything! Statement sleeves and flared pants have been around as a trend for a while now. Trends tend to start small, develop over several seasons and get more and more exaggerated as designers attempt to reinvent the trend each season and surpass the last. So it is no surprise that the flares just keep getting bigger and bigger.

I had previously written posts on flared sleeves here and here as well as a post on voluminous sleeves.

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Sleeves, sleeves, sleeves. It’s all about sleeves this season. So far I’ve already written a post about voluminous sleeves (read HERE) and bell sleeves (read HERE) and now we’re going to talk about trumpet sleeves! Actually, despite having majored in Fashion Design, I had to look up the difference between bell sleeves and trumpet sleeves. The answer I’ve found, according to Fashionpeda by Fashionary, is actually that it’s the same thing.

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