I'll just go ahead and preface this post by warning Alan H not to read this! The following discussion will be chock-full of the kind of stuff you dislike, and I'd sure hate to see you get yer dander up over it. So, Alan, if you've made it this far into my post, please, hit the 'back' button before it's too late!

OK, here's my issue. I'm well aware of how sleeve lengths should interact between shirt and jacket. Which is to say, ideally the shirt sleeve would come somewhere around the base of one's thumb, and the jacket sleeve would end at about the wrist, leaving a narrow bit of sleeve showing. I've seen various suggestions on how much should show, usually between 1/4" and 1". I prefer about 1/2" of sleeve showing.

However, as I'm sure everyone knows, this is not a static thing. When you raise your arms, bend your elbows, or basically do anything besides stand there with your arms drooping limply like a caveman, things will change.

What I often find happening is that my shirt sleeve will stay down where it belongs, but the jacket sleeve rides up. And then it stays there unless I shake it back down or tug it into place. So I'm often left with the entire cuff of my shirt sleeve exposed. It doesn't bother me as long as my arm is bent - I rather expect that this is how things should be. But I start to feel like a goober after a while, having to shake my arms or pull at my sleeves to make them go back to where they should properly sit.

I'm guessing it's just the friction between the shirt sleeve and jacket lining that holds it up. Or maybe friction at the button area of my shirt sleeve.

Does anyone else have this issue? Short of pinning my shirt sleeve to the inside of my jacket sleeve to keep them always 1/2" mis-aligned from each other (which would be awfully silly), I'm not quite sure how to make my sleeves return to their initial alignment when I put my arms down.

And yes, I know I'm over-thinking it.