FASHION INDUSTRY DICTIONARY

Define Raglan.

Sleeve and shoulder section cut as one piece and attached to garment body with an angular seam.

Widely used sleeve construction in which the underarm seam of the sleeve is extended to the neckline at the front and the back. This construction is said to have originated when a British General in the Crimean War, Lord Raglan, had coats with this sleeve constructed for himself after he lost an arm in the charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.