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There has been a lot of talk about the spalla camicia and what is a real one, a fake one, a RTW one, a padded one, an unpadded one etc. I took this picture and adjusted the light so that every shadow and crevice was visible. It is substantially more subtle in real life, but this back view should give a picture of what the idea of a shirt sleeve shoulder really is (or at least one of the things it can be... One thing to note is that as you can see from various WAYWT thread pictures, the front of the shoulder is much cleaner than the back. This is the traditional way to make such a shoulder. This particular fabric is a 10 oz fresco from Woodehouse.
in particular here is a closeup of the lapped sleevehead which continues to the lapped sleeveseam where the sleevehead transitions to a more standard construction: