Ok, yesterday I tried so hard to unfix my mind from shirts and all that revolves around it, as easy as it was it was so difficult to achieve. So, here I am looking to tell you something about a little more about growing and nurturing gentleman dreams.
In my previous post, I tried to sway us from opting to use short sleeved shirts as a fashion statement by wearing a tie, just because it is best worn casually, you know, without a tie. However, in an attempt to wear an SS shirt, we lose sight of some other issues that are of relevance, like the sleeves, instead of wearing an overly bogus sleeve or having them properly hemmed, they should be folded neatly so as to conceal the unstylish flappy sleeve and also maintain a stylish look. And that brings us to the subject matter.
I’ve always wondered about the ideal way of folding the sleeves of my shirt, so it doesn’t get in the way and just so I can seize the opportunity and make another statement. Of course, whenever you use one piece interchangeably with another so that it becomes novel, a statement is eminent, in fact, Novelty is style and vice versa. So I come into the office and the boss asked that all unwanted documents, folders and rubbish that have been stock piled be moved to the junk. I rolled up my sleeve and got to work. When I was done, there was no point rolling them back and cuffing them as the creases would be too evident and so I decided to let them be.
Now this is where my challenge lies, “folding my sleeve” so I surfed through the net and found that there are basically three ways to achieving a neatly folded sleeve:
1. The first one result in about 6 folds and ends just 2 to 3 inches above the elbow. This is mostly used/done by tall lanky people, because doing a threefold will leave the sleeves dangling; they’d rather have their sleeves done in this manner. Here’s what I figured, it isn’t a bad way to go about solving a challenge, but it undermines the person who uses this method.
2. In trying to achieve a neatly folded sleeve, so many of us go wrong in that we just do not think it would mean anything to anyone, so we just hastily roll the cuff over the sleeves and over again(about three times, depending on the sleeve length) until we have 80 to 90 percent of our forearm uncovered. This may come across as the most ideal, but it just isn’t, it is the lazy way and there are still prone to be restrictions. The entire human arm is pivoted by the elbow, so each time you try to use your arm; you stretch the shirt and leave creases that may never be put out. This is the premature pattern.
3. All the above mentioned patterns aren’t wrong to use, but there is that which is more convenient and appropriate. Finally, when I have looked and looked, I found that in other to fold the sleeves and still look the way I wanted, now knowing that I have been guilty of the aforementioned two, I pondered even more and I found that to have a neatly folded sleeve, I have to fold, and fold and again until the folds rest just on top of my elbow, an inch or none on top of my elbow. Because it allows my arm and elbow unrestricted movement and no creases will obvious. Only this way will I have accomplished a neatly folded sleeve.
