Short Sleeves or Rolled Up Long Sleeves?

[Carolina Kiltman]

I, too, have come to think that gentlemen's shirts should be long sleeved whether down or rolled. Otherwise, you should have a nerd pouch and a clip-on tie.

One must dress in the corporate culture one feed from, sadly I must admit!

. . . Add a slide rule, and well--I'll explain what a slide rule is to you younger fellows later. Think of it as a caveman's version of a calculator. (Calculators weren't yet invented when I was in college.)

I was teaching in college when the first hand-held calculators came out!

Anyway, never wear a jacket with a short-sleeve shirt. It just shouts "tacky." (I hope no one takes humbrage at this. My opninions are of little value, and they are never very important.)

My feelings exactly!

[Carolina Kiltman]

But, out of interest, how many of you guys who wear long sleeved shirts also wear cuff links?

Cheers, Graham.

Nearly all of my "dressy" shirts, those worn with suit, sportcoat, or kilt jacket, are cuff-link types. Probably because my Father, who was an executive type with IHC (European operations) always wore shirts with cuff links. (Come to think of it, they had detachable collars too, but that would be from the era just ahead of me). My denim, flannel, and guyabara (sp?) shirts are not cuff-link.

[Wompet]

I think Jamie worded my the best:

This is just my personal preference but I absolutely loathe short sleeve dress shirts. A short sleeve safari shirt or other casual shirt is fine.

To me a dress shirt must be long sleeved.

But MacMillan reminded me -

Long sleeve shirt with a tie, short sleeve shirt with open collar. Either way I always wear a white tee-shirt underneath.

If I'm wearing jacket and/or waistcoat (with/without tie), the shirt has to be long sleeved. If I'm going without jacket and waistcoat, and know that's it's going to be warm enough to roll up my sleeves - then I'll go with a short sleeve shirt.

[Derek Conley]

This is just my personal preference but I absolutely loathe short sleeve dress shirts. A short sleeve safari shirt or other casual shirt is fine.

To me a dress shirt must be long sleeved.

Those short sleeve versions give me the fashion heebie jeebies!



Cheers

Jamie

I agree wholeheartedly!

Also, the idea of wearing a short-sleeved, button-down collared shirt with a jacket just seems... very wrong. There'd obviously be no sleeve showing from below the arm of the jacket and would just look, well, odd.

It makes me sad that some pipe bands go with the short-sleeved/tie/waistcoat look.

[Brother Falldown]

The only time I ever saw short-sleeved dress shirts as acceptable corporate dress was one summer when I interned at a marketing agency in Phoenix. I attended a pitch for a huge promotional campaign at (I think) Colgate Palmolive. All the guys who came into the presentation were wearing gray, black and blue suits. When they took off their jackets, they all had white short-sleeved dress shirts. I asked a guy I was working with what was up, and he said that the short sleeves were the one concession corporate America was willing to make thanks to the temperatures in Phx being 115-120 during the summer.

As much as short-sleeves give me the yips, that's the one time it sounds about right.

As a long time resident of Phoenix, and a veteran of Corporate America I can attest to this. In fact the City of Phoenix government has a summer dress code that dispenses with many items if attire (jackets, long sleeves, ties, and yes for you ladies- no panty hose). But then, these summer temperatures are not the norm for most of the world.

[Clockwork John]

I would never dream of wearing a short sleeve shirt with a jacket, a waistcoat, or a tie. Also, most of my short sleeve shirts are either polos or have button down collars. No tie with those.

I live in an area where summer temperatures are frequently over 100F. If I'm going somewhere dressy (not formal) during the summer, I'll skip the jacket and go in a proper shirt and a tie.

[EagleJCS]

Short sleeve, tie and waistcoat is the "pipe band look", donchyaknow. ;-)

It also bugs the heck out of me, because in my mind, if it's warm enough to wear short sleeves, then it's warm enough to go without the waistcoat and possibly the tie.

I'm with Panache. Short sleeve 'dress shirts' give me the heebies, but I'll wear one when playing with the band. Otherwise, the only short sleeves I wear are my t-shirts and knit/polo shirts.

[Jaggy thistle]

I always wear long sleeved shirts and always roll the sleeves up what is that about ?