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Can You Bell-ieve Estelle’s Sleeves?

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Estelle Photo: Mike Coppola/2011 Getty Images

Singer Estelle attended Paper magazine’s Nightlife Awards in New York last night. She wore a black dress with bell sleeves that, from the elbow down, had layers of feathers and flamenco-skirt-style ruffles, and added gold heels, a gold handbag, and assorted pieces of gold jewelry.

While they’ll certainly help to make all sorts of hand gestures expressive, aren’t the sleeves here a little much? Or just (campy) fun detailing that’ll do great things on the dance floor?

Can You Bell-ieve Estelle’s Sleeves?