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@couch and @bepmep:

Thank you for the detailed illustrations and contextual explanations. I see what you mean by the base of the thumb now.

To both couch and bepmep: Thank you for your responses. Can you please assist me in clarifying the phrase "first joint of the thumb" if I provide a visual? (Disclosure: The attached graphic is from http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_xdequer_art.htm. I provided the text.) Thus...in the illustrati...

I have always gone by the rule that the shirt cuff should end right at the "first joint" of the thumb, meaning, the base of the hand, or end of the wrist. I like to show quite a bit of cuff. *Looks at own hand* That is quite a bit of cuff. I write with a temperamental fountain pen. My white cuffs w...

May I humbly ask for your advice... I have short arms, so whenever I purchase a jacket or shirt, the sleeves need to be shortened. Always. Here is my dilemma: I would like about half an inch of shirt cuff to show through my jacket sleeve. However: The tailor that alters my shirts shortens the sleeve...