Fad or Bad?: "Thumb Holes"

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

"Thumb Holes"


(Written By: Christy Penney)
Long sleeve shirts, sweaters and sweatshirts are popular among a lot of women and men out there. However now they are making the sleeves on these shirts a tad bit longer just so they cover your thumbs. They are adding what they call “thumb holes” to the sides of sleeves at the bottom, this way you can put your thumb through those holes just as if you were putting mittens on. It has grown in popularity over the years between both women and men’s clothing.


It first started out with people cutting actual holes in their shirts that the sleeves were too long. This was more comfortable to have your thumb slip through the hole rather than having your sleeve hang over your hands. Then as the popularity grew in fashion it became quite the statement and more and more people were getting in to the whole trend.

Now they have actually brought it into the fashion world and various stores sell shirts with holes in the sleeves. All different kind of shirts, with multiple colors and design, display this type of fashion on it. However many people will still resort to cutting holes in other shirts that they buy as well, simply because its more comfortable for them when the sleeves are to long. But if you’re looking for something different, look at long sleeve shirts the next time you go to the store and seen what how many have holes in the bottom of the sleeves.

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