frustrated re: sleeve length

[Quadcammer]

ok, so this should not be as complicated as it is turning out to be.

a while back, i was having my suit sleeves altered to a standard length giving me about 3/8" of shirt showing. since that time, ive lost about 15lbs.

now i have like a full inch of shirt showing and obviously that looks ridiculous.

wtf is going on? how did losing weight cause this disparity. i dont mind having them all made longer again, but i dont want to have to adjust this every time my weight fluctuates a few lbs.

thanks

 

[Sanguis Mortuum]

I can certainly imagine this happening, I had kinda the opposite, after I started working out some of my shirt sleeves seemed to become shorter. Not sure of the exact reason but it's probably just to do with more/less mass across the upper back or across the shoulders. I doubt there's much you can do to avoid this happening, other than maybe getting your cuffs narrower so they stop at the base of your hand regardless of length.

 

[Veremund]



...getting your cuffs narrower so they stop at the base of your hand regardless of length.

Bingo!

 

[Quadcammer]

that might be the case, but you would think that would somewhat similarly affect the suit, no?

 

[archibaldleach]

Wouldn't the wool be heavier and thus less likely to drop a bit if you lost a bit of mass in the upper body? A shirting weight cotton on the other hand probably doesn't have the same structure and may seem to grow in length relative to the suit as a result.