Sartorial Etiquette

[Guest]

In the photo on this link, are the arms of the jacket too short?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15711400

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes - but Tony Blair was always too big for his boots

[amateur51]

Yes - but Tony Blair was always too big for his boots

Certainly a moral knuckle-dragger

[Lateralthinking1]

Is it Tony Blair? Oh blimey, so it is. I hadn't noticed.

[mercia]

I think when wearing "kissing" cuffs and cufflinks the sleeve of the jacket won't go over the cuff (plus of course one wants to show off one's expensive cufflinks)

[Norfolk Born]

Perhaps the arms are too long...

[Serial_Apologist]

Certainly a moral knuckle-dragger

...speaking off the cuff

[Lateralthinking1]

If you go back to the original link, the Beeb have changed the photo. I must have inadvertently hit on a raw nerve. A bit like saying in Russia that Putin hasn't got biceps or in France that Sarkozy has erectile dysfunction......sorry but the clip still shows it as Man at C and A. Marr's been to the same shop but he's got funny arms anyway.

[mangerton]

Perhaps the arms are too long...

That is quite correct. Bliar has always been anything but 'armless.

I'll get me (longsleeved) coat.

[Richard Tarleton]

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-cufflinks.htm

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shoot%20your%20cuffs

A couple of helpful links. I'm not a body language expert but I've always been fascinated by TB's signature gesture - elbows spread, followed by compressing gesture, spread fingertips meeting.

[MrGongGong]

I hear they only gave him the job because he has a shiny car ! (makes folk take him more seriously I am reliably told !)

[Lateralthinking1]

So now we have it from Richard T. Blah was "shooting his cuffs".