Comprehensive Guide to Jacket and Shirt Sleeve Lengths - Q&A

Our series of Questions and Answers with The Armoury Founders, Mark Cho and Alan See. In this video we take a detailed look at sleeve length for tailored jackets and dress shirts.
Chapters:
0:00​ - Intro
0:17​ - Shirt Sleeves
2:43​ - Suit Jacket Sleeves
3:55 - Too Short!
4:58 - Too Long!
5:48 - How to Alter
6:37 - FAQ

[@YoussefRahoui]

Best video I’ve seen on this topic: clear and sensible

[@thewoosh31]

Some great tips! Especially that diagonal adjustment for jacket sleeves with functional buttons. Thanks!

[@alexanderluzan6045]

It was such a joy listening to your wisdom and proper english!

[@BilalCGundogdu]

To lengthen jacket sleeve on already exist working button wholes, you can add the fifth button at front to balance it up - tom ford does it often.
Great video anyway - keep posting, please.

[@Aggnog]

First time I hear of the thumb to wrist measurement, it sounds very convenient. I've mostly read of using the end wrist bone as a reference as there is usually about 1-2cm from where the wrist bone ends and where the wrist widens, which is where the shirt cuff would rest.

[@ConkreteMan]

I was just trying to explain proper sleeve length to my teenage son this past weekend. Now I can show him this video. Thank you.

[@miopera40]

That one you show where the sleeves are too long is the one that looks better when you move your arms, stays in place. I bet a longer shirt sleeve on that one will look perfect without any mods to the jacket.

[@jordanjackson7171]

this is incredible - thank you!

[@audemarspiguet4237]

This was such a helpful explanation

[@scott_litch]

Great video! Thanks.

[@justcallrizq4589]

The greatest thing about these fine details is that most people that ur gonna meet probably wouldnt even care how short or too long ur jacket sleeve length is or ur shirts. Even the ladies most probably wouldnt care. But, you and i, people of culture, yeaa we know whats up, other men of culture knew too whats up so yeah, i love this ❤

[@bayramilhan30]

Thanks a lot...

[@ianonymouz2]

How close is too close to the edge for jacket sleeve buttons?

[@Tenkterian]

I have the same problem with a vintage cotton jacket by Canali: when I start wearing it, the sleeve length is borderline acceptable but after an hour or two it basically shows the whole cuff. Needs to be taken to an alterations tailor.
Thanks for the video!

[@florianhess]

Excellent video, clear presentation and reasoning.
Do wonder about the advise to not shorten sleeves at the shoulder, something a lot of tailors (here in London) offer. Why not? Thx

[@TheArmourytv]

Taking sleeves up from the shoulder requires much more work for a tailor, if is a minimal procedure taking up from the bottom is always much easier and quicker.

[@JasonCheeeseball]

pretty much why I hate rtw jackets with opened buttonholes. don't want to shorten from the shoulder

[@juanluismoya1733]

Me encanta su canal,la pena que no entiendo nada

[@tofuboy9269]

how do you iron and keep your clothes ready everyday?

[@animeboitiddies6146]

how about shirt fit in general? i find shirts are the single hardest thing to get to look right on me, especially given im trying to go from a fairly unfit but not large body to a more athletic one. no way of tucking quite looks right, small is too small, medium comically large. at the same time, it seems pointless to do too many alterations to my shirt if i aim to gain mass.

[@therealGLAD]

Where are you buying your shirts from and how do they size? For example, most companies size shirts by shoulder when really waist is just as important (especially since most men have the same shoulder size. Sounds like you need a shirt with M size shoulders (usually a 40) and S size waist.