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How Much Dress Shirt Cuff Should Show From The Suit Jacket? – SUITCAFE

By A Mystery Man Writer

Off to work for the big meeting and you run out the door. Suddenly, you find yourself pulling at your shirt's sleeves. You keep trying to pull them down to show more cuff. Maybe it is no fault of the shirt. The suit sleeves are too long and no matter how you try to keep those suit sleeves off of your knuckles, the s
Suit sleeves should fit so that they are, on average, four inches from the tip of the thumb. If you only wear French cuff shirts then going a little shorter, four and a half inches, is acceptable. Button or barrel cuffs should show a quarter to half an inch out from the bottom of suit sleeves. For French cuff shirts, showing a bit more of the shirt’s sleeves is acceptable and fashionable. In this case, one half inch to one full inch of shirt sleeves showing as measured from the edge of the shirt’s cuffs to the bottom edge of the suit’s sleeves.