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Ah,the extra long sleeves... They started being a common trendy thing back in the early 2000s but mostly restricted to sporty lifestyle wear, pushed by several sport clothing items with half-hand covering sleeves (ski and snowboard jackets but also modern dance gear). They seem to have trickled down into overall mass public clothing nowadays.

I've seen several scrappy folks wear them in their videos. Like Ali Edwards, Theresa from Larkindesign, etc. If you look attentively, you'll notice that some of them have a hole for the thumb (which they're not using as that wouldn't be practical at all for scrapbooking). My guess is that these ladies are wearing a top or sweater from a sport gear company like Lululemon in those videos (after all, many of us like to get comfy with a pair of yoga pants or leggings and easy top when we get home). These thumb cuffs are originally designed to keep the sleeves from riding up and/or rain/snow/wind getting into the sleeves (and drastically cooling your body temp) during exercise outside. Since athletic clothes are now sold to mass public, they've just become super mainstream.

If the material of the sleeve isn't too bulky and glides well (like a lot of technical fabrics for athletic wear), it's really not much of a hindrance as long as you aren't doing some sort of messy scrapbooking with inks, water, glitter and glue.

Yes! I always notice this, too!

I was just having a conversation with a teacher about this. Instead of overheads, many teachers use document cameras and they project every single crease, age spot, dirty cuticle etc. to the 100th degree. No one has good looking hands with these.

I think people are just trying to cover up what they don't want seen.

I didn't know they came with holes for thumbs or that it was a style thing, huh. I often leave my sleeves down like that because 1) I'm short, so my sleeves are always way too long, and 2) my hands are usually cold. Unless I'm doing something messy... then, roll 'em up!

I don't like long sleeves myself as I don't like feeling 'bulky' when I work. Unless the sleeves are very form fitting from elbow down, then I prefer 3/4 or short sleeves.

I 'think' I know the youtuber you are talking about joblackford....but I also find them distracting. That, and sniffing - if you have a cold for goodness sake, either don't talk and use captions or just post later when you have no sniffles....yuk

I don't know how anyone can do anything with sleeves flapping about. Even if they're fairly non-moving, I just can't imagine how they don't accidentally drag it across what they're doing, get covered in ink etc.

From: someone who cannot see her fingers at all if she wears long sleeves. Awkward to explain, but how my arms/hands work I look down the inside of my arm and then under my wrist to see my finger ends. Any bulky sleeve material obscures the view and I have no idea what my fingers are doing.