Juggling life, liberty and happiness

Recently I've been thinking about summer, and about hot weather, and how my wardrobe is in a sad, sad state and needs serious work

And especially about how when I roll up dress sleeves because of the heat or to work, it just doesn't look like the pictures, because my smock sleeves show when I roll up my dress sleeves and the period pictures don't.

And so I groused, until it hit me.

MY smock sleeves show when my dress sleeves are rolled up, and ones in PERIOD pictures DON'T! Like this picture, for example, from REALonline, Errettung eines in einen Mühlbach gefallenen Kindes, Bild: 000496; 1518 ; 1522 ; Graz ; Österreich ; Steiermark ; Landesmuseum Joanneum.

Where's her smock sleeves?

Wait! What? How can this be? Aren't all chemise/smocks/hemds/whatever_you_call_em long sleeved?

Well, perhaps not, and here's some images for discussion of both sleeves rolled up and no smock sleeves showing, and sleeves rolled up and smocks showing.

Now I just need to translate the small section in Textiler Hausrat about unterhemden to see if if says anything useful. But it appears that a sleeveless or short sleeved smock is documentable.

Hurray! One more weapon in the fight against heat stroke!