In the early 1900’s, the use of cufflinks was popularized by working middle-class men. These are men who constantly attended night events requiring formal attire – dinner meetings, parties, and others.
Cufflinks are considered male jewelries that adorn the chest part of the blazer or coat. Today, there are thousands of ways that you can wear them appropriately. Read on and consider these important tips to remain current in basic fashion trends.
When we speak of cufflinks, we usually think of formal events because that is how they were traditionally worn.
Cufflinks are simply used to secure a shirt’s button cuffs. They also serve as some kind of jewelry for men. We all know that, when it comes to accessories, men don’t have quite as many options as their female counterparts. That said, cufflinks are the simplest form of jewelry that they can wear. Usually, either toggles or reverses secure the cufflinks. This is made possible by their front section designs that make them foldable when positioned on the shirt.
Cufflinks are manufactured using a variety of materials like the following:
As for their decorations, the front sections can be decorated with the following:
We have seen a lot of cufflinks worn by men. We may have also been dazzled with the different designs and with how they are chosen to be worn for various occasions. Cufflinks may appear to be easily worn in any way. But then, there are several ways on how cufflinks should be worn. Just consider these tips when choosing what works for you:
This style makes use of a shirt with a pair of holes that differentiates them from the French cuff style. This style entails the cuffs not to be mid-folded, instead worn with ease and with simplicity by passing the cufflink ends into the holes and closing them up.
In filing the cufflinks, adjust bottom making to a T-shape to be easily pushed through the button holes.
Make a transverse cross through the inside and the outside of the holes. You may do that by pushing the cufflink’s small end to the outside of the buttonhole. You must then bring the other side of the cuff’s button hole closer to the previous one. Keep the cuffs in place by rotating the clasp. Make sure to have the button close beneath the forearm.
Fact: A French shirt is expected to have two cufflink holes to be tied. French shirts have cuffs that are intended to be folded in middle of the cufflinks attached. The French cuff style is said to be the most common among other styles. However, if your shirt does not have two sets of holes, you may simply make a pair of holes using a scissor. Just make sure to have the same holes that the shirt already has.
How to wear the French-Cuff Style:
Fact: As the style suggests, either the fabric or a cuff that overlaps the other is what you can expect with a vertical cleft. This style is what may be referred to the overlapped or the folded style. This cufflink style requires a button to be added to the cuff’s inner side aligned and adjacent to the button hole on the outside.
How to wear your Overlapping Style cufflink:
If you happen to have a single cuff shirt, your options would be as follows:
Most men wear a minimal amount of jewelry. Besides a watch and a ring, men should add a nice pair of cufflinks to class up their look. Originally, cufflinks were made for royal people. So, why not take the chance of looking like royalty anytime by sporting a nice cufflink?
If you are attending a formal occasion requiring you a coat and tie wardrobe, take the opportunity to show off a bit. Go, wear that gold watch and your ring and never forget to add your impressive kiss cuffs on your French cuff shirt. Pick the best pair of cufflinks that suit your individual taste, style, and personality.
“It’s a casual occasion, there’s no need for that”, they say. I disagree completely. Yes, you can certainly put on a nice cufflink on a casual occasion with your casual outfit.
If you are thinking of wearing a striped casual shirt under a dark blazer, pick a denim and a nice loafer and use a pair of silver or light colored cufflinks. You maintain the usual laid-back cool rugged look on a casual occasion with a nice pair of cufflinks.
The middle class working men have outnumbered the elite in our society. Fashion-wise, the trend is likely to happen with the number of people in the middle class using it.
Consider these tips. For your cuff links’ choice or color, always look for the reverse shade of your shirt (within the same color spectrum) to provide a contrast. For example, if you are wearing a dark blue shirt at work, you can use a light blue cufflink; a green shirt may require a light green or any shade of green cufflink, a light camel shirt would also require you to pair it with a cream or dark brown cufflink.
If you are using a while shirt, you can choose any color to match it. The nearest suggestion is to wear a black with silver frame cufflink, but you can always experiment with other colors.
Just remember the rule of thumb: a darker shirt requires light-colored cufflinks and vice versa.
But wait, pink shirts don’t have a contrasting color on its same spectrum and it’s rare to find a pink shaded cuff link in the market. Try using bright, multi-colored cufflinks in this situation. You may choose to have a bright multi-color cufflink or you can choose subdued stripe colors. You can pick any depending on your personality or mood for the day.
Mostly, more formal occasions and events used link up cufflinks. Formal outfits sometimes require these kinds of cufflinks. Just take note that on occasions like this, a French cuff shirt would look best with your cufflinks.
If you are attending a white tie occasion, keep in mind that you need to look good with the proper (required outfit as stated in the invitation) attire and a classy pair of cufflinks. What about a mother pearl, an elegant gemstone or a diamond cufflink? As they say, you need to level-up your cufflink choice in occasions like white tie parties.
Opt for other cufflinks in the unavailability of the sophisticated authentic mother of pearl, diamond or gemstone. You may have those that would best resemble these expensive suggestions for a much cheaper price.
If you are a philanthropist or somebody who is working for eco-conservations, you can also take advantage of this at white tie parties and events to advance your cause. Any IT enthusiast could surely wear a nice silver plated USB flash drive cufflink; or perhaps ribbon-designed cufflinks for anti-cancer causes, or a “Batman logo” cufflink for Police Officers.
As they say, your cufflinks could subtly advance any cause you are fighting for in the midst of other important personalities at white tie parties.
We’ve got our man Danish rocking cufflinks with a pinstripe blazer and suit pants above and he looks great.
He’s paired a white shirt with gold and black square cufflinks on a French cuff shirt. You can also wear cufflinks on a shirt without French cuffs, but for the most formal of cufflinks, we advise against this.
If you’re going to a black-tie event, you need to wear cufflinks.
For an event that does not call for black tie, cufflinks are up to your style decision.
If you’re going to wear cufflinks, the rest of the outfit should have some dapper quality to it. Notice the collar pin in the picture above, that elevates the outfit as does the pocket square
Don’t wear cufflinks without a jacket– it just doesn’t look polished
You will never have any trouble wearing your cufflinks on a shirt below your blazer, just make sure that you have the perfect shirt to match your blazer. You may want to consider the color of the shirt in contrast to the color of your blazer.
There are things that we can and those that we can’t wear without. There are accessories that are mandatory when wearing a specific wardrobe, and cufflinks are one. Just imagine wearing your long-sleeve shirts with your suit without your neck or bow tie. Can you imagine how awkward that would look like?
Wear cufflinks traditionally for formal occasions. Here are your options when you want to wear a cufflink with your suit:
Wearing suits entails the presence of cufflinks on your shirt cuffs. Without them on, your overall look will just be as ordinary as when you go on regular occasions. Cufflinks are really an element of elegance to men, especially on special events. But when wearing a set of cufflinks, always consider the style and the type to wear to make sure that they fit into the occasion.
Cufflinks perfectly work for shirts with a hole where you can normally see the button on the cuff. Shirts without two button cuff holes with not work for cufflinks. Ordinary shirts may not have holes. A lot of available shirts these days, however, are button cuff, also known as barrel cuff.
A cufflink can be worn with barrel cuff shirts by replacing the buttons with cufflinks. French double cuff shirts would certainly look best with cufflinks.
A shirt stud is a fastener that fits in your shirt’s pleated buttonhole or front shirt’s stiff starched bib. Some shirts do have special buttonholes that are meant only for shirt studs. One of these shirts is the tuxedo. A tuxedo’s shirt stud is found next to the button on the right.
Cufflinks are nothing without the shirt to pair them with. Different shirts work with a different pair of cufflinks. After knowing the ways of wearing cufflinks, here are some ways of wearing them using different shirts.
Sometimes you would feel like wearing a cuff on a regular shirt without French cuffs. Here’s what you can do:
Shirts with buttons would be a barrel cuff shirt and it may have a double button cuff. You can actually just easily convert it into a casual dress with your cufflinks on without further ado. All you need is just to get rid of the buttons and make sure that there are 4 holes for cufflinks to pass through.
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