Show shirt cuff at end of Crail or Tweed jacket sleeve?

[Steve Ashton]

I guess that would depend on your generation.

My generation were taught that when your arms are down and relaxed there should be no shirt cuff showing.
The length of the jacket sleeve should be between the second and third knuckle of the thumb.



If you bring you arm up, with the fore arm horizonal in front of the body, the cufflink should just peek out.

Then sometime in the 70's jacket sleeves began to be cut shorter.
With the arms at the sides 1/4 to 1/2 inch of shirt cuff should show and when the arm is brought up the entire cuff should be visible.



So I guess it comes down to personal preference which style you like.

And I guess it also depends on the length of your shirt sleeves. My generation was taght that the shirt cuff should be at the wrist bone. Today many shirts are cut so that the cuff is down to the back of the hand.

Of course very few jackets and shirts are tailored to fit any more. You sort of get whatever the maker's "standard" is.
Kinda like blue jeans. Levi's fit totally different than Lees. And the fit of Levi 501 is different from Levi 505.