Watches used to hang on the end of a pretty chain that accessorized the waistcoat.
Trousers and jacket linings could also make room for it in various forms that tailors called “onion pockets”.
Then the wristwatch arrived.
More sporty, comfortable, and less starchy.
Right-handed men rushed to position it on the left wrist, and vice versa.
Since then, it has been a topic of continual discussion.
First, it's the blouse that plagues.
It is forced to create a small difference in wrist circumference.
Result?
One falls lower than the other.
And if he doesn't pay much attention to it, the customer will look like François Hollande.
No one seriously wants that.
So what should the tailor do?
Lengthen a sleeve?
The safest thing is still to ask to remove the watch to wedge everything in perfect symmetry, to the measurements of the body.
The timepiece will hold the shirt cuff a bit and that's it.
Gianni Agnelli had meanwhile…
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