Wide measure is from underarm to underarm
"We saw radical swings in work attire through Covid as people were dressing for the keyboard up, as we like to say, and now as they return to the office, there's a really exciting enthusiasm about head-to-toe dressing again," explains Shea Jensen, Nordstrom's general merchandise manager (via The New York Times)
Whether you lean prim and proper, colorfully eclectic, sleek and minimal, or whimsical and feminine, your work wardrobe is an important channel for personal expression
The slight mismatch typically looks unintentional rather than coordinated

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Next, find your first sleeve measurement by placing the end of the measuring tape right below the nape of your neck and measuring from that point to the stitching at the shoulder