But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, hisshirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing hisshirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.
1998, David Page Coffin,Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing,→ISBN, page51:
By far the most important fitting issue for sleeves, whether for a woman's shirt or a man's, is length, and that's probably the only part of theshirt sleeve that's bothered you if it wasn't right.
There are certain types of sleeving that are difficult to perform with theshirt sleeves down, and it is difficult and risky to attempt sleeving while wearing a shirt with "French" cuffs.
2012, Cecil Johnson,It Just Isn’t Cricket,→ISBN, page33:
He used to bowl slow left arm, round the wicket, and he always had hisshirt sleeves loose – flapping all over the place.
