Q I have been upgrading my wardrobe and have decided to go with your suggestion of all-cotton shirts. But I find that they shrink and don't fit after a couple of wearings. What do I need to do besides ...

Some designers only make one sleeve length. The sleeve lengths are graduated to correspond to the neck size (so a "long" sleeve on a smaller neck size shirt is shorter than a "long" on a large neck ...

When you think of clothing silhouettes that evoke power and presence, 1980s-era padded shoulders might come to mind, but across the centuries, billowing sleeves were a courtly status symbol.