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The younger generation is getting taller. The problem it gives me is that shirts are accordingly being made with longer sleeves ~ in fact they're now too long for me. In my younger days I could buy shirts which came in a range of sleeve lengths. Unfortunately they're no longer available except in expensive shops ~ unless you know different.
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Boundary Mill stores have a good range of shirts by the likes of Tootal and Van Heusen at discounted prices.
I manage OK with standard sleeves, I've seen some in there with extra long sleeves.
Not sure about extra short, but worth a look if there's a store near you:
www.boundarymill.co.uk/bou_index.html
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Being long-armed I have the opposite problem. Many of my shirts have adequate sleeve length, but quite a few are a bit short. If I'm buying myself I tend to use the 'expensive shops' to get the exact fit, but not before they're reduced by at least 50%.
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My father used to wear those sort of 'garter' things to keep his shirt sleeves in check - I wonder if you can still get them? They'd be useful for me sometimes.
I'm 6ft 1in, one son is 6ft 3in, the other 6ft 6in. What might my grandsons grow to?
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>>>>Van Heusen
I don't have any at the moment, but VH shirts used to be extremely hard wearing. You would tire of them long before you could wear them out.
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...My father used to wear those sort of 'garter' things to keep his shirt sleeves in check...
Some of the old sub-editors used to wear these, and a tinted visor.
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>>Some of the old sub-editors used to wear these, and a tinted visor.
The stuff of black & white films of the 1950's. Not in your day, surely?
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...The stuff of black & white films of the 1950's. Not in your day, surely?...
Perhaps not in 2011, but there was a chief sub who dressed that way up until his retirement a few years ago.
He always wore a bow tie, too.
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Our copy clicker wore a visor and that was the mid-1960s. And I often wore a bow-tie in later years because I liked the effect and it was always a conversation piece. There are pictures...
Actually, we had a bit of a lunch with ex-pat friends on RW day and I wore a red bow-tie for old times' sake. When I popped into a local shop on the way the expressions were priceless.
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There are other sites, but these seem to offer good value, especially if you buy a few, sleeve length options.
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I was the youngest person in my year at school and the tallest.
Now I'm often dwarfed when I walk past a group of sixth formers.
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Im 6ft-4 with size 13 feet and remember when i was 20 getting then size 12 was hard work and had to get non fasionable as they stopped most at 11, Went to the sports outlet place other day size 14 and above now so i can have fasionable trainers on my 13 feet!!
Same with shirts as above ok in arm length not long enough in drop length so buy Ben Sherman which is ok in length & i know where to get shirts as i have broad shoulders 4xl.
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>> fashionable trainers
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Ye gods, how can you?
You'll ruin another keyboard for Hump with that sort of talk.
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>> There are other sites, but these seem to offer good value, especially if you buy
>> a few, sleeve length options.
I'm deffo losing the plot..:-)
www.ctshirts.co.uk/default.aspx?q=criteo|||||||||||||||
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>> Being long-armed I have the opposite problem.
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Too right. And trying to find a jacket that doesn't make you look like Norman Wisdom is a nightmare.
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>> And trying to find a jacket that doesn't make you look like Norman Wisdom is a nightmare.
You're right there. Shirts are a minor problem by comparison.
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I thought most on here had short arms...and deep pockets.
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' Fashionable trainers ? '....Surely an oxymoron ?
Can't stop long.....half time at Wembley !
Ted
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I buy formal shirts from Costco. 100% cotton, well made, about £14 IIRC and they come in different sleeve lengths. I have no idea what the unit of measurement is but they range from about 32-26 sleeve length and I know 35 fits me.
No good if you like 'city' shirts with no pocket and double cuff though. I don't.
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Next offer their shirts in standard and longer length sleeves. They are of reasonable quality and the standard ones may be right for you.
Here's a link to their size guide
help.next.co.uk/Section.aspx?ItemId=15314
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The size guide is interesting(ish). The sleeve measurement unit is inches so they must measure across the shoulders.
Anyway, note that the sleeve length increases as the neck size gets bigger. So if you can live with a size bigger you'll get longer sleeves.
I'm cheered by the prices of Next shirts. A couple a year from Costco is covering my membership fee.
I used to work for Next - their prices were half sensible with 25% off.
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>>No good if you like 'city' shirts with no pocket
No pocket. Where else are you supposed to put your pen, mobile, comb and specs?
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I look forward to all these youngsters joining the Police Force - the "Long Arm of the Law" and all that!
Err...I know my own way out.
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I thought as you got older, you get shorter. Are you sure the younger generation are getting taller, or is it that you're shrinking with age?
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They reckon you get shorter as you get older.
I am 6.1 but i see pleny of youngsters who are taller than me.
When i go and see my brother in klompen land there are lots of tall people.
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>> When i go and see my brother in klompen land there are lots of tall
>> people.
Those clogs have thick soles!
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The Dutch are big people all round. Use to work with a Dutch guy, he was huge, and spoke with an broad Glagow/Dutch accent (married a local lass). He is now a Prison Warder in Brisbane.
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>>When i go and see my brother in klompen land
I've only been once, way back in the 60's. Spent a few days in Noordwijk Ann Zee with my parents - quite a nice seaside resort as I recall.
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...The Dutch are big people all round...
As a linked generalisation, I would say the same about South Africans.
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I grew up using klompen handy if you got into a scrap lethal weapons.
Must be the old fashion food my grandma used to make and what was left over in the frying pan the next day.No fancy stuff in the house but bruine bonen met spek.(brown beans with lard) went down well.I have never been to South Africa,my brother went a few years ago he liked it. All the apartheid problems they had in the past I don't know if things have changed.
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Lithuanians and Montenegrins are the tallest nations I have come across, as an anecdotal observation.
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My impression of Edinburgh when I had a spell working there 15 or so years ago was that it had more six-foot women than six-foot men.
Successive generations since the war have had better food and generally healthier habits (especially with the decline of smoking). The genetic potential height of the UK as a whole is actually decreasingly slightly, as post-war immigration from outside Europe has brought in more 'short' genes than 'tall' ones, but improved health and nutrition have outweighed that effect.
My father claimed 6'4" but was probably exaggerating by an inch. I have a genuine couple of inches on him and the youngest Beest, now 8, looks like overtopping me by a similar amount. No guide to anything, I know, and you have to factor in that both my father and I married tall women, who have the advantage that we can hear what they're saying at cocktail parties.
That's what geneticists (guilty) call Positive Assortative Mating, and it will cause some reinforcement of the tall end of the distribution. (Probably among the shorties too, but we tend not to notice them.). };---)
On shirts, I've gone off Tyrwhitt for the second time. I tried to forgive them their stupidly tight sleeves and cuffs, and their intelligence-insulting permanent sales; what did it this time was four shirts in quick succession that had to be prematurely retired with sleeve failures. I'm dallying enjoyably with Thomas Pink, but angling for a business trip to Hong Kong in the hope of getting some shirts made to my specification there.
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One of the main reasons for the growth in average height is the lack of childhood diseases, main due to the widespread use of vaccination. Illness during the early years inhibits growth and this lost growth is never recovered
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Average height of the younger generation - Iffy
