Alright, the short of it is I see this lady in a photo wearing a dress like THIS, she calls it a “Kimono Butterfly-Wing striped Dress” So I googled with various combinations of her description and turns out, that Google has never heard of such a thing either.
Is there a reliable description of this dress so that I could just do a search for th-at and get some decent results. I’m looking for a pattern for something like this to give to someone that can actually sew stuff. Any leads or help would be much appreciated.
The thing with clothing names is that they are often at the whim of the creator. I’d perhaps try googling for butterfly sleeved dress, and maybe toss in 80s or 90s in there.
ETA: Ask the person with sewing skills if they can come up with a pattern based on the image. I had my prom dress made based on nothing more than a picture!
Since it has dolman sleeves, and is not long enough to be called a dress I would call it a exaggerated dolman sleeved T- shirt!! sure doesn’t do anything for her figure!!
I thought a bat wing had a single layer of fabric extending down from the closed tube of the sleeve, rather than being a very large, bulgy tube. Batwing cardigans were very popular last year, and that’s what you saw, rather than anything like the picture in the OP.
