Hello: Is it longsleeve shirt? long sleeve shirt? Or long-sleeved shirt? It's so confusing.
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I agree, it is confusing. It appears that the proper term is "long sleeve shirt."
My research method is embarrassingly simple but I'll share it so you can use it, too, in future. I started typing "long sleeve" into Google and a lot of advertisements came up for "long sleeve shirts." See my Google Search Results.
Since--for the sake of marketing--ads seek to appeal to public opinion and public good-taste, they use the correct and proper term. For this reason, I conclude that the correct term is "long sleeve shirt."
EDIT: This must be one of the words that has more than one correct spelling. In the comments below, Kate Bunting gives me a Cambridge Dictionary reference for another spelling: long-sleeved.
The word is defined as being an adjective to mean "having long sleeves: a long-sleeved T-shirt." Its opposite is given as being "short-sleeved."
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I see you're in the UK. I am not familiar with UK spellings for fashions but I am convinced that the ads get it right; see my edit. The ads I saw apply for North America. Commented Jul 17, 2020 at 14:55
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dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/long-sleeved Commented Jul 17, 2020 at 16:12
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