Cuffinks?

[ozone]

For those wanting an overdose of cufflinks.....here's a site where i recently got some welsh dragon cufflinks. Be warned....this cufflink stuff can be addicting.

http://www.cufflinks.com/

BTW, lands end has french cuff shirts available with any type of collar and many different patterns, you just have to pay $60-90 b/c they are custom :-(

[cacunn]

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[Bugbear]

Nope, I didn't find a description of the shirt I have at either of those links. Although, that first link came close..., but it didn't say it had the vertically pinstriped fabric on the sides of the front and the french opening flap thing.
I'm sure someone on the forum knows what this is.

For some reason, I seem to remember Dean Martin wearing a shirt like the one I'm asking about... And I think it might have been with a regular tie, but I don't remember so well. That probably doesn't help... Probably makes it worse...

[sjrapid]

All my work shirts have double (french) cuffs, need collar stiffeners (or collar bones, as we call them here in the UK) and have cutaway collars too, natch.

Matching or contrasting silk-knot cufflinks, a freshly ironed shirt with proper collar bones, and a neatly-tied (Windsor knot) tie are small pleasures, but they all add up to the larger pleasure that is 'being more smartly dressed than your boss...'

It is indeed hard (if not impossible) to go back to 'ordinary' shirts once you've switched to double cuffs - but Lewins seem to run almost perpetual sales at their various London stores, so if you move around a bit, you can pick up their shirts for £25 or so each if you buy two at a time.

best regards

[JerseyLawyer]

There's always the January sales at the various Jermyn Street stores.

[Dukeof Kircaldy]

http://www.dress-shirt.com/french-cuff.htm - 19.99

http://www2.jcpenney.com/jcp/Product...arch1Prod=True 22.95

Cheap cotton-poly blend shirts.

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

[Alan H]

Never fear, Rex, it is I. However as my postillion was recently struck by lightning I have had to tend to those tedious tasks one usually delegates to others. For example: I had failed to notice that today was a day of Holy Obligation and that the obscure Order of Belgian Nuns who launder my shirts and small clothes would quite rightly be otherwise engaged. However, having followed this thread with baited breath I decided to investigate the efficacy of purchasing a ready made shirt of the sort worn by those in my employ. Having done so, and worn said garment, here follows my review: For a shirt made in Honduras, by Honduraneos, it's not bad. The cuffs are a trifle tight, but other than that it did what new shirts are supposed to do, i.e., it managed to provide the perfect landing spot for a drop of an indifferent claret on the right cuff, and there also seems to be a port stain on the plaquet, under my tie. Three or four more outings and it should be ready to wear to the club.

Best post of the day, maybe the whole week.

[Bugbear]

Best post of the day, maybe the whole week.

That was a funny one, Alan H.


And I guess I just need to give up trying to get an explaination of that shirt I was asking about back there... If I ever get a picture of it, I'll re ask the question in a different thread.

[Bugbear]

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.

[JerseyLawyer]

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.