There are many rules about the correct length of a jacket sleeve, which unfortunately are not correct. It happens that these incorrect rules come from sellers, who spread them out of a lack of reliable knowledge or a desire to sell outstanding goods.
One way to measure sleeves, What we can meet in stores is stretching your hands in front of you at shoulder height. A natural consequence of this method of measuring will be too long sleeves, so this way should be rejected.
Another mistake, which is repeated is this, that the sleeve should reach the thumb. Similar to the first example – the sleeve will be too long.
We know how not to measure the length of a jacket sleeve, in that case – how to do it? Similarly 1 a picture is worth more than 1000 words, so let's take a look at the graphics, which presents in a very simple way, what length of jacket sleeve is correct, and what is not.
We put our hands down and this is how we measure the correct length.
The shirt cuff should rest against your wrist, and the jacket sleeve should end 1-2 cm above the wrist.
I hope, that now the question of the correct length of a jacket sleeve seems understandable and simple. However, if you have any questions or would like to share something about this topic – I invite you to write a comment.