Men who dress in the English fashion usually wear button cuffed shirts with odd jackets and less formal suits, and turnback cuffed shirts with more formal suits and evening clothes. But what to do when an odd jacket is called for and the only available shirts have turnback cuffs?
When jewelry would be too much, as it is with tweed, silk knit links can be just right. Colorful and inexpensive, they close the wrist without looking out of place.
The pair in the photo were party favors from San Francisco's Borrelli store, worn on the way to the country for the weekend.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
When Jewelry Would Be Too Much
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I find the combination in your photo particularly attractive and well done, thank you. The right sort of double cuffed shirt has always appealed to me with tweeds. Included among them are graph checks, such as that depicted, tatersalls and even mini-tartans, provided each is of the proper scale and colors. Another favored cuff link with such combinations is reverse-carved and pained crystal estate jewelry . The sporting motifs in which they were often made, the irregularly shaped figures contained, and the colors in them can often combine very well with a patterned, double cuffed shirt and tweeds.
Great assemblage. The silk knot colors are identical to the IZingari cricket club colors...just in a different order.
You´re right, Will.
Silk knit cufflinks are the best possible choice with a double cuffed shirt and a tweed jacket.
But I prefer solid color cufflinks (red, burgundy, green...) related to some shirt or tie colors.
Multiple colour ones always remind me some country flag (Germany, in the case of the ones in the photograph :-)
I like blue silk cufflinks combined with blazers too, but in that case I also use two pairs of old silver ones I have.
Old dark aged silver which looks exactly as the steel of an antique armour.
Serious, but not too formal.
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