Cuff

Fashionable trimmings, like this nineteenth century lace cuff, were frequently transferred from one gown to another.

A tantalising glimpse of lace, a whisper of ruffled silk - flirtatious frills had their origins in undergarments worn in the sixteenth century. Spilling over men's and women's wrists and elbows, in the the eighteenth century ruffles hinted at a life of pleasure.