I know you've mentioned before not paying that much attention to physical details and frankly, neither do I when I'm reading so the time I spent pondering this question was really more a result of me being sort of unhealthily obsessed with these books for a few weeks and less a problem of confusion descriptions.
Because I know I am not very good with clothing (I have a sister who is fabulous with both that and shoes, although shopping with her is not for the faint of heart), I try very hard to find something similar to what I think people are wearing so that I can describe it.
So I'm only asking because I'm aware that I could actually be very wrong about this o.O.
My understanding of sleeveless has always been something like a sun dress, in which the dress falls from the shoulders the way a normal dress would fall -- but doesn't have the arm fabric.
I thought strapless meant nothing at all on the arms or shoulders.
So when I describe sleeveless, it means no sleeves, but implies fabric over the shoulders, and if this is wrong, then I have been doing this wrong for, oh, mumble mumble books now, and I need to know ;_;.
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Date: 2008-04-27 02:38 am (UTC)Because I know I am not very good with clothing (I have a sister who is fabulous with both that and shoes, although shopping with her is not for the faint of heart), I try very hard to find something similar to what I think people are wearing so that I can describe it.
So I'm only asking because I'm aware that I could actually be very wrong about this o.O.
My understanding of sleeveless has always been something like a sun dress, in which the dress falls from the shoulders the way a normal dress would fall -- but doesn't have the arm fabric.
I thought strapless meant nothing at all on the arms or shoulders.
So when I describe sleeveless, it means no sleeves, but implies fabric over the shoulders, and if this is wrong, then I have been doing this wrong for, oh, mumble mumble books now, and I need to know ;_;.