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20th April 08, 01:03 PM
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There's always the January sales at the various Jermyn Street stores.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
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23rd April 08, 01:59 PM
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 Originally Posted by cacunn
Cheap cotton-poly blend shirts.
Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer
There's always the January sales at the various Jermyn Street stores.
Expensive all cotton shirts!
Try Paul Frederick or Joseph Banks if you are in the States
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Originally Posted by Dukeof Kircaldy
Expensive all cotton shirts!
Try Paul Frederick or Joseph Banks if you are in the States
Charles Tyrwhitt and Thomas Pink both have stores in the USA now as well, if you prefer English style shirts. Tyrwhitt will give you 50% off on your first order. I think Paul Fredrick has sales for new customers, too.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
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Alright, I will be going to get cufflinks next weekend now that I have a shirt with french cuffs to use them on. I have also bought a set of pearl faced buttons that can bee joined together at loops in the back and used as cufflinks, as well as, a set of white buttons which I will do the same with... as soon as I figure out which thread is the white thread.
I will be using this shirt with my black and grey kilt, so the cufflinks will need to be silver. Those perl faced buttons I bought relate to a pearl tie tack I wear with the nightstalker tartan tie and kilt, so that is why I picked them.
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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I have a few shirts from burberry and ralph lauren that are french cuff. I think it looks really really sharp when worn formally (make sure you match the links to your watch, ie don't wear a gold watch and silver links). Also, I like them because some of them have 2 sets of slots to change the length of the sleeve. i like a shorter sleeve when i'm not wearing a jacket and a slightly longer sleeve when I am, to show the shirt.
As a general rule of elegance, wear links that maintain the style of your outfit. For example, square cufflinks are better with modern, "athletic" fit suits while oval and round go better with double-breasted and traditional wear. I wear round links with my kilt and rectangular with the suit.
Si Je Puis
Kirkpatrick of Clan Colquhoun
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Thanks for the advice, josephkirkpatrick. I would think that the gold to gold and silver to silver matching would also apply to the sporran, tie tack, or any other metal like chains and so on. Although there is a trend toward putting silver and gold on a single piece of jewlery...
Anyway I have the double slot sleves on my french cuffs. I think it's a nice feature. As I said in my other post, I'm going in to get cufflinks this upcoming weekend and the square and rounded advice is good to know.
* I ended up getting rectangular silver and black cufflinks.
Last edited by Bugbear; 15th May 08 at 05:51 PM.
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