There isn’t a question that a saree is one of the most sensuous and elegant attires for any woman. The right sleeve length and design can help bring different looks alive even with the same saree!
The saree wearers are aware of the real struggle here. With so many styles and length combinations in option it’s truly difficult to put a finger on what design you want to go for. If you relate to this madness you should surely read ahead!
Here is a list of some interesting and comfortable blouse sleeve styles that can help to bring the perfect look to your classic saree attire.
36 Different Types of Blouse Sleeve Designs for Women in India
Every woman desires the perfect blouse fitted to her style and body. A classic blouse design is that which incorporates all these needs to become a timeless piece that she can cherish for a long time. The market is flooded with many such sleeve designs that can bring your vision and style alive.
36 Different Types of Blouse Sleeve Designs
- Sleeveless
- Batwing
- Bell
- Bishop
- Button Flap
- Cap
- Cape
- Churidaar
- Cold Shoulder
- Dolman
- Drawstring Puffed
- Dropped
- French
- Frill
- Juliet
- Kalidar Kurta
- Keyhole with button
- Kimono
- Lantern
- Layered Frill
- Leg of Mutton
- Loops and Button
- Magyar
- Padded Shoulder
- Pagoda Sleeve
- Peasant
- Petal
- Princess
- Puffed
- Raglan
- Set In
- Shirred
- Slit
- Slitted Puff with Button
- Slitted Virago
- Virago
1. Sleeveless
A sleeveless blouse is a perfect blend of traditional attire with a modern feel to it. If you want to be extremely comfortable on a hot sunny day, a sleeveless blouse is the way to go. It is easy to carry, comfortable and gives you a confident stylish look. You can play around with the width of the straps and other accessories to get your desired sleeveless look. You can use designer strings for a better fit or a latkan to add that hint of style.
2. Batwing
Batwing sleeves are unique and stylish for an evening party. The batwing sleeves are long sleeve with a deep armhole almost to the waist size, and it is extending till wrist. It makes your heart flutter on repeat with sartorial elegance. Just drape a light saree and team up with some chunky jewelry for a chic look.
3. Bell
If a long sleeve is your taste, then you should consider the bell sleeve for a sophisticated look. The long sleeves are quite comfortable and easy to carry with flowy and flared saree in chiffon or georgette material for working ladies. The sleeve of the bell design is smooth at the armhole and flared at the hem edge. As bell sleeves are trendy, you can choose this design for a wedding look in a fusion with heavy embellished saree or lehnga for an alluring persona.
4. Bishop
There’s a plethora of latest blouse sleeve design, but bishop style is one of the oldest de rigueur western-style, which never fails to offer an exquisite appeal. The long sleeve of bishop blouse is a set-in sleeve with volume or gathering at the wrist by a cuff. This vintage style is a massive comeback and often carried by some celebrities on a runway. Wear this design with a statement neckpiece in an event to be a talk of the town.
5. Button Flap
Why settle for boring when you can add some flaps? A long roll-up sleeve with a flap sewn to fasten it with a button adds spice to your boring blouse design that accentuates the whole look. Not too loud. Not too dramatic. This blouse design is perfect for office going women who never settle for less.
6. Cap
All the skinny girls can opt for the cap shoulder design to make a drool-worthy appearance, as the cap attached to the shoulder cover the top of the arm, slightly extend down the arm. It is an extra addition to show off your toned arm with lace and net detailing, which is quite popular these days. Just drape a translucent saree, with a piece of statement jewelry, and you are ready to rock -n- roll.
7. Cape
To hog the limelight, the cape design style is all you need. Just be careful, hire a skilled tailor as it has an extra layer of fabric that is sewn over the top of the shoulder either in circular or semi-circular to give a cape effect that requires meticulous attention. For a sassy look, drape a silk saree and go for a sheer cape sleeve with floral embroidery that contrasts silk saree, which makes you no less than a princess.
8. Churidaar
Be a heartthrob with a long churidar sleeve, the fabric which gathers makes churi at the wrist. Try experimenting with colors, heavy embroidery, net, sheer, velvet, etc. as churidar sleeve fits in all categories and suits all body types.
9. Cold shoulder
The cold shoulder is cut out on your shoulder and then continues the fabric. The cold shoulder design is absolutely bomb and deadly combination with exceptional embroidery along with pattu saree on a wedding day. For ethnic wear, team-up cold-shoulder design with the accessory like- latkan, pearl bead, temple motif, and embroidery on the sleeves as it is breathtakingly astonishing to your cold shoulder design detail. This peculiar style can be pulled off with both traditional and western silk or chiffon saree.
10. Dolman
The sleeve is long, fitted at the wrist and usually curved around the underarm, there may be a cut in front and back of the fabric or attached altogether to the front and back with a vertical stitch.
11. Drawstring Puffed
A puff sleeve that has a string at the wrist of the sleeve blouse is used to pull to fasten it, forming a sort of frill.
12. Dropped
Skinny divas can nail a drool worthy look with this sleeve design which doesn’t have any armhole shaping and the cap acts as an extraneous addition adhered with the shoulder. This sleeve type serves as a match made in heaven for ladies who wish to proclaim their toned arms.
13. French
French sleeve is the extension of the raglan sleeve where the sleeve is extending to the neckline where seams are slanting from underarm front and back.
14. Frill
Frill design is quite fashionable and trendy; add some beads, pearls, tassel to the sleeve hem of the frills as it gives a glamour touch. The sleeve of the frill design is fit till the elbow, and then there’s a frill attached to it. Perfect for night outs and parties. Be the first amongst your peers to don this style with a silk or chiffon saree along with some chunky jewelry.
15. Juliet
The Juliet design is a long sleeve at the upper section or around the shoulder and tight fit along the arms.
16. Kalidar Kurta
The Kalidar sleeve has been beautifully adopted to blouses from the kalidarkurta, and it can be recognized by a flap of cloth between the sleeve and the bust of the garment. A blouse with kalidar sleeves will spell grace with a nicely pleated formal saree.
As the name suggests, the sleeve has a keyhole and a button to fasten it. Keyhole with a button adds a new element in the same old boring blouse, you can play with the multiple buttons, or a simple button will do the wonder.
18. Kimono
Kimona style is chic and classy for all the fashion flocks who always look for new things to experiment with their looks. The sleeve of the kimono blouse is cut in one in the front and back of the fabric or maybe attached front and back with a vertical seam altogether. With intricate embroidery on sleeve and matching armlet will surely bail you out from any fashion event emergency.
19. Lantern
The lantern sleeve is long or 3/4th sleeve; it has two sections. The sleeve is smooth at armhole and wrist. The two-section are joint by a seam with crosswise design to add width or flare in the blouse.
20. Layered Frill
Multi-layered frill design is an adorable choice for sangeet, mehndi, or Haldi function. As light saree along with voluminous frills add a wow factor in your style. Frill detailing blouse can also be worn in a cocktail party with a fantastic saree to keep up the aesthetics.
21. Leg of Mutton
The sleeve with full gathering around the armhole that pleated and tapering follow the narrow wrist.
22. Loops and Button
Bid adieu to the decrepit buttonholes with button loops which can render a soft charm to your look. Button loops tend to overlap the sides of your blouse sleeve and can serve you well if you wish to indulge in subtle skin show without going overboard with it.
23. Magyar
This one-piece sleeve can be thought of as an addendum of the bodice and doesn’t feature any seam in between the sleeve and bodice. Fashionistas hoping to camouflage their underarm flab can opt for this style which can keep your relaxed during the scorching summer months.
24. Padded Shoulder
Padded shoulders have extra padding beneath the fabric to extend the shoulder line. If you have narrow shoulders, wear a padded shoulder blouse with a crisp cotton saree to your office and be the epitome of elegance.
25. Pagoda Sleeve
This bell-shaped sleeve was a rage amongst the fashion-forward lasses of the Victorian era and is still worn with panache to reveal the inner sleeve and sleeve lining. It usually remains fitted around the shoulder joints and bolsters around the wrist area for that charismatic winter look.
26. Peasant
A wide range of raglan sleeve that gathers around the neckline and the wrist. Gathering can be done by elastic or drawstring. The sleeve length can also vary on an individual choice: short or long.
27. Petal
Petal is an excellent choice to try something different without going overboard to amidst the grandeur in a lavish party as the overlapping edges joined at the top without any underarm stitch. It looks good with every saree, and you will feel differently without putting much different.
28. Princess
The princess sleeves is an adaptation of the puffed look on full sleeves, with long sleeves divided into multiple puffed sections. A princess sleeved blouse will look bewitching with a saree or a lehenga if you are skinny as it would take away the attention from your torso.
29. Puffed
The puffed design is a part of eclecticism from the early 90s-80s trends. To throw back a contemporary style, the puffed blouse design is the alluring choice as it adds an effervescent charm. The sleeves with gathering at armhole or lower edge or both add a drama in your Kanjivaram saree style. Just pair up with some simple jewelry and big oversized bindi.
30. Raglan
The sleeve of the raglan design joined by a diagonal seam extends from underarm to the neckline. With a desi swag and unique pattern, Raglan design is the best blouse design for wedding season for all the broader shoulder ladies to flaunt their beauty and get showered with compliments. Just adorn an embellished saree with a minimal accessory like a statement tikka.
31. Set In
The set-in sleeve has a sleep cap in round shape. The blouse side stitch and sleeve underarm stitch are assembled first so that the sleeve is put into the armhole.
32. Shirred
In shirring, the fabric is gathered and sewn to give shape to the sleeves, bust or waist of a garment. If you are a petite lady, a blouse with shirred sleeves paired with a chiffon saree will suit your thin arms and define your contour.
33. Slit
Slits in the blouse design add an appealing touch, usually slits sleeves are long or 3/4th of the arm’s length. There’s a long slit in the front follows till the end of the sleeve and cuff down at the end. They are funky, fresh, and go with silk, chiffon, or georgette saree. Pair up with some minimal jewelry for a diva look.
34. Slitted Puff with Button
Sleeves are given a puffed look by gathering the fabric at the top and the hem, and the slitted puff with button is one of the popular variations of the puffed sleeves. Look vivacious in a silk saree with slitted puff sleeves blouse, but remember to avoid any kind of intricate work or embroidery on the blouse.
35. Slitted Virago
Slitted virago are long sleeves, divided into slitted sections which gather at intersections that fit the arm. Wear a blouse with slitted virago sleeves along with traditional saree, and rock the desi chic look at a family function or informal occasion.
36. Virago
Virago style is from the regency period where the renaissance was developing, and royal families were adorning new styles with new eras. The sleeves are full and gathered into repeating puffs at a regular distance with the help of ribbon or any other fabric.
Last but not least, don’t get carried away by the fashion of celebs. They spend more on their figure maintenance than the expense of our daily living cost, just to be the perfect fit for every design.
You must be picky about getting your best fit, considering your comfort, boldness, complexion and figure.
Your blouse should be well-tailored and should be made of the best clothing material out there. I don’t think you would compromise on the budget when it comes to your satisfaction, definitely not.
Once you have had exactly what you wanted, you will definitely see heads turning and eyes fixing upon you!
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