Cufflinks have long been associated with royalty and with men of fashion. Indeed, they go back to the early 16th century. Before that time, men wore their cuffs tied together with pieces of string. Under the reign of Louis XIV in France, these were eventually developed into a...
Many men’s shirts today come with buttons to hold the single cuffs together. Go to somewhere such as Marks & Spencer and you will see that they have shelf after shelf of men’s shirts in all sorts of different patterns and colours, and nearly all of them with...
Legend has it that the modern-day cufflink achieved popularity after the publication of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas in 1844. One of the characters in the book had huge diamonds on his cuffs which caught the eye of everybody. Not long after that came the...
When most people think about cufflinks – if indeed they think about them at all – it is probably something along the lines of “Well, they’re so out of date now. Who wears them today?”.The answer may surprise you, but an awful lot of men – and women...
Cufflinks have been around for a very long time. Since the 16th century in France, at least, when the billowing men’s shirt sleeves needed to be tied together with something to stop them flapping about. If you think about it, our upper arms are a lot bigger than...
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