Scarface

Scarface has several meanings:. Picken, Mary Brooks: The Fashion Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, 1957. Scarface: The World is Yours is a video game based on the 1983 film. Oxford English Dictionary. Scarface is the name of the dummy used by the Batman villain The Ventriloquist. In technical usage a sleeve is a tube into which another tube is inserted, which in the case of small tubes is called a thimble. Scarface is a 1990s rapper who was originally a member of the Geto Boys; see Scarface (rapper). There are many other proverbial and metaphorical expressions associated with the sleeve, such as to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, and to laugh in one's sleeve.

The movie was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino; see Scarface (1983 film). Where the long hanging sleeve is worn it has, as still in China and Japan, been used as a pocket, whence has come the phrase to have up one's sleeve, to have something concealed ready to produce. Scarface is a film about the mafia first made in 1932; see Scarface (1932 film). Various survivals of the early forms of sleeve are still found in the different types of academic or other robes. Scarface is a nickname for Al Capone. The pattern of the sleeve is one of the characteristics of fashion in dress, varying in every country and period. Dutch sloof) is that part of a garment which covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips.

slieve, or slyf, a word allied to slip, cf. Eng. Sleeve (O. Two-piece sleeve, a sleeve cut in two pieces, inner and outer, to allow the sleeve to take a slight "L" shape to accommodate the natural bend at the elbow without wrinkling; used in tailored garments.

Set-in sleeve, a sleeve sewn into an armhole (armscye). Raglan sleeve, a sleeve that extends to the neckline. Puffed or puff sleeve, a short, full sleeve gathered at the top and bottom, now most often seen on children's clothing. Paned sleeve, a sleeve made in panes or panels, allowing a lining or shirt-sleeve to show through (16th and 17 centuries).

Pagoda sleeve, a wide, bell-shaped sleeve popular in the 1860s, worn over an engageante or false undersleeve. Juliette sleeve, a long, tight sleeve with a puff at the top, inspired by fashions of the Italian Renaissance and named after Shakespeare's tragic heroine. Hanging sleeve, a sleeve that opens down the side or front, or at the elbow, to allow the arm to pass through (16th century). Gigot sleeve or leg of mutton sleeve, a sleeve that is extremely wide over the upper arm and narrow from the elbow to the wrist.

Dolman sleeve, a long sleeve that is very wide at the top and narrow at the wrist. Cap sleeve, a very short sleeve not extending below armpit level. Bishop sleeve, a long sleeve, fuller at the bottom than the top, and gathered into a cuff (1940s). Also known as a "magyar" sleeve.

Batwing sleeve, a long sleeve with a very deep armhole, tapering towards the wrist.