As for the shirt, the sleeves were inches too short, and the unbuttoned cuffs flapped around the burly forearms.

True it is that short sleeves are not the most sensible things for November; but Lizzy was twenty, and had such round, white arms, that she liked to wear short sleeves, as any girl would; and who is going to blame her?

One day her little white robe will begin to shine too, and her long sleeves will be wings, and she will spread them and ascend through the blue sky to Paradise.

"Quilted sleeves" would no doubt be the tailor's term.