What Are Cufflinks and How Should You Choose Them?
What Are Cufflinks? While the majority of shirts worn to work on a daily basis have a one-button barrel cuff with buttons, cufflinks are required for shirts with double (i.e. French) cuffs and dress shirts are worn to formal and black tie events. These small decorative objects, which are normally constructed from a bar of silver or gold-toned metal, serve to secure the sleeve ends together and ensure that the cuffs fit snugly around the wrists in place of buttons. Their beginnings can be traced all the way back to the fifteenth century. Small strands of string used to tie…