Dating cufflinks

Dating swank cufflinks

Your favorite formal wear is incomplete without a glittering pair of cufflinks attached to each wrist. Traditionally a masculine jewelry, antique cufflinks have historically been passed down through families as an emblem of coming adulthood. Recently returning into fashion's good graces, a pair of antique cufflinks can make a dapper gentleperson out of anyone. Long before post-Victorian social norms made it a taboo for the 'ideal' man to enjoy lavish amounts of jewelry, cufflinks were just one of the ways that men decorated their outfits. The earliest documented cufflinks come from the 17 th century and were largely limited to the highest social strata. These small, bejeweled accoutrements fell out of favor for a few centuries until a resurgence in the 19 th century with the creation of the French cuff - a stiff, rectangular cuff that needed to be pinned closed with a cufflink.

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Home » A Guide to Cufflinks. Today, there are fewer boundaries defining gender specific jewellery than there have been for the last half a century. Cufflinks are essentially an alternative for the buttons on cuffs of shirts. Many shirts, especially ones made for more formal occasions, will be made with no buttons on the cuffs, and instead have two small holes to allow for cufflinks.

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History of Antique Cufflinks: Styles, Brands and Values

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