Why I Wear Short-Sleeved Shirts
I nearly always wear short-sleeved shirts, except when I’m wearing a decent suit.
I usually say that this is the result of a bullying incident at school, where my arm was broken. I was left with one arm about a centimetre and a half shorter and this means they never fit properly. Until recently, I avoided use of my left arm if at all possible and this meant that I was even more lopsided.
So long-sleeved shirts never worked unless they were made to measure.
But now that a guy called Dave Southby has made the arm and shoulder work so much better by just a lot of simple exercises. That got rid of about over forty years of pain.
So I bought two long sleeves shirts from Marks. Nothing wrong with them and they fit reasonably well, but they have one major problem.
How do I wash up in them?
Thinking back that was probably the original reason I stopped wearing long-sleeved shirts. Not because of washing up, but from about fifteen onwards I was always doing lots of things with my hands and long sleeves just get in the way.
What Happened to Men’s Nylon Shirts?
Do you remember those awful drip-dry nylon shirts of the ninteen-sixties?
They were awful and I don’t think they did anything for attracting the opposite sex. Especially as they used to shine in the lights on the dance floor.
But why did they disappear?
It was all to do with mini-skirts.
Before women raised their hemlines and men’s heart rate, they used to wear stockings. But as skirts got shorter, you weren’t decent in stockings, so there was a swift move to tights. Look at the average pair of tights and they use perhaps more than twice as much nylon than the stockings they replace. And to make matters worse, you can’t use two odd ones to make a pair.
So the result was that the demand for nylon rocketed.
As you can’t build a new plant overnight, ICI and the other manufacturers had to get the nylon from somewhere.
So they diverted it from men’s shirts to ladies’ hosiery and killed one of the most abominable articles of men’s clothing.
The Anonymous Widower 