Sleeves: the right not to bare arms

                             Sleeves: the right not to bare arms 

In a talk at the Edinburgh book festival on Sunday night, Caitlin Moran said she loved the singer Adele, because she wore sleeves. In fact, Moran is a longtime covered-arm enthusiast. "Why are there no sleeves?" she wrote in the fashion section of her book How to Be a Woman. "If every woman in this country were allowed to cover her upper arms as God intended, prescriptions of Xanax would halve in a fortnight." She writes all this in capitals in a clear sleeve-based rage; I write in crushed resignation with a glimmer of cautious optimism. Because the sleeve issue may be getting some coverage

                           by Emine Saner

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