For the Love of Sleeves

This is an open letter to all you fashion designers, clothing manufacturers, retail fashion buyers and fashion editors.  You know who you are, the ones who decide what is going to be “in” each season.

Since fashion is decided months in advance I am begging you please to make women’s clothing with some sleeves for next spring and summer.

I know that I am not the only woman who does not like her arm fat to flap in the air. Even women who I consider to be very skinny sometimes have beautifully toned upper arms on one side and some chicken gobbler flab on the other side.

If you are having trouble picturing this hold your arm up in the air as if you are making a Popeye fist, upper arm perpendicular to your body, elbow bent at a right angle with your fist above your head level.  While looking in the mirror, make a fist and look at your beautiful muscles on the top of your arm.  Now shake that arm back and forth, did the bottom wobble at all?

I don’t mean to insinuate that your arms are anything but gorgeous.  But mine are not.  No matter how much I work out and diet only one side really improves.  Not the end of the world.  The answer is sleeves.  They cover a multitude of issues, if I could find summer clothes with them.

My proof that I am not the only one looking for clothes with some semblance of sleeves is that all the summer clothes available in store now are sleeveless.  Granted it is the end of the season, but even with prices slashed to 25% of their original cost most of the items are sleeveless and no one is buying them.

I asked a sales clerk in the dress department at Belk if she had any dresses with sleeves and I swear to God this is what she said, “Honey, if you wanted to sleeves you had to be here in March.  All those dresses sell out fast.”

The pashmina has been the answer to so many women trying to find ways to cover those naked arms, but sometimes you don’t want to have an extra thing wrapped around you.  So fashion deciders, vote yes for sleeves.  Those dresses sell.