Long sleeves were the norm when I was growing up in the south in the fifties
and sixties. I don't ever remember a man wearing a short sleeved shirt to
church until late 60's. My Daddy's security police uniforms were long sleeved,
and it got HOT in Pine Bluff.
Sometimes when watching clips of old news reels of baseball games; in the
dead of baseball season, when it was hot, hot, hot...the men were in suits,
even!
An old timer told me years ago that long sleeves were cooler (before we had
air conditioning). They said that when a person sweated, the sleeves got wet,
then it made the person cooler when /as it evaporated.
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