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Best Solution: Shirt cuff width and length while wearing watch

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It seems:

If you have a bigger cuff to accommodate a watch, it'll fall lower than your other arm because sleeves are supposed to worn a little longer than your wrist for movement.

What is the best solution?

1. Bigger cuff on one side, same sleeve lengths, but let watch sleeve fall lower and uneven.

2. Bigger cuffs on both sides, same sleeve lengths, allowing both to be a bit long.

3. Shorten both sleeves to allow for no movement, so that even bigger cuff width on both sides still falls in the right spot... but not because it hits your hand, but because the sleeves are short and I suppose "float."
 

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Find a thinner watch?

(you can keep your thick one, just have a thinner one for dressy shirts...)
 

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Most of my barrel cuff shirts are the same length and size. I usually button my right cuff to the second button and leave my left cuff on the first button. This evens out how much they show most of the time.
 

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Originally Posted by incastoutcast
Find a thinner watch?

(you can keep your thick one, just have a thinner one for dressy shirts...)


If only it were that easy. For one, most watches nowadays, even dressy ones, are 11mm + and the watch I want, because of a domed crystal, is 12.5mm. Plus, I like watches and don't want to be restricted to only the thinnest watches when coming to work everyday.
 

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^ Fair enough, and I was being a little facetious. Generally, it seems to me that both cuffs bigger isn't a bad solution - of course, this may depend on your wrist-to-hand ratio, and I will admit it's almost impossible not to get sleeves that will pull up and back when the arm is across the chest in this case.
 

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Originally Posted by incastoutcast
Find a thinner watch?

(you can keep your thick one, just have a thinner one for dressy shirts...)


I agree with this.
 

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Maybe I shouldn't have put the "alternative solution" on here, lol. Not giving me best results. Oh well.
 

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Why would the sleeves be uneven or one side too long? You can make one cuff slightly wider but not so wide as to fall on the hand. The whole point of getting one cuff adjusted is to keep the same fit/tension on both sides.
 

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Originally Posted by gdl203
Why would the sleeves be uneven or one side too long? You can make one cuff slightly wider but not so wide as to fall on the hand. The whole point of getting one cuff adjusted is to keep the same fit/tension on both sides.

Would you suggest single sole for one side, but double for the other? Maybe if your shoes tilt your whole body to one side, it could rectify this issue.

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^^ Great idea. Or one could purchase a set of these to hold on one side or the other and ensure a perfect length of the sleeve by adjusting the level of the hand.

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Originally Posted by gdl203
Why would the sleeves be uneven or one side too long? You can make one cuff slightly wider but not so wide as to fall on the hand. The whole point of getting one cuff adjusted is to keep the same fit/tension on both sides.

Because the cuff width is exactly why your shirt falls where it does (unless the shirt is an exact length). The tighter cuff get stopped by your hand higher up than the looser cuff, which falls further down your hand.

So, you wear a watch on one side, and have a bigger cuff, the extra width will go over the watch, but also continue onwards and go further down your hand (depending on hand-wrist ratio). This will be uneven, unless you also allowfor a bigger cuff on the other side... then both sides will go further down.

So one of those options... or having sleeves an exact length to wear you want them. But this actually could make sleeves too short in a sense. since they are suppose to allow for a bit of movement pull.
 

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Originally Posted by Jay687
But this actually could make sleeves too short in a sense. since they are suppose to allow for a bit of movement pull.

Intriguing.


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