Re: the long sleeved shirts.  "Here" and throughout most of the midwest area, farmers in that older "grandpa" generation always wore long sleeved shirts.....always. Skin stays cooler if you keep the direct rays of the sun from hitting it and the old timers knew that fact and lived by it. My granddad lived to be 94 and in all the years I knew him, I never saw his sleeves rolled up beyond the 3/4 or so point so he could wash up for dinner and supper and he never owned a short-sleeved shirt.