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The mans shirt, and its cufflinks, first made their appearance in the mid 16th century.
The sleeves, or wristband of the shirt, came with small openings that were tied together with string – or ‘cuff strings’ as they became known.
Although cuff strings would remain popular well into the nineteenth century, it was during the reign of Louis XV that sleeves became more stylised and were fastened with what are still called, ’boutons de manchette,’: French for ‘sleeve buttons.’
In the early days these cufflinks were often made of identical pairs of colored glass joined together by a short, linked chain.
For wealthier gentlemen, the glass button was sometimes replaced with diamonds set in gold or silver and fed through the holes of the cuff.
It was during the Napoleonic period that Faberge, the French jeweller, perfected kiln-fired enameled jewelry, and began exporting cufflinks around the world.
In 1845, the French claim to the double cuff was reinforced when it was described in Alexandre Dumas’s novel, “The Count of Monte-Cristo”. In the novel, he describes Baron Danglars’s cuffs as “…the red ribbon that depended from his button-hole.”
Thus began the making of the doubled-over, or ‘French cuffs’ as we know them today.
Over time, the cuff link became a more sophisticated part of a man’s wardrobe, especially for the tuxedo. With the varying types of stones, precious metals, fabrics and designs now available, the cuff link became the new well-dressed man’s must-have.
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the mass production of cuff links enabled a greater variety of cufflinks to be manufactured and at lower prices. Chains were replaced with easy-to-close clips that cost less to produce.
los angeles clippers t shirt makers, eager to sell larger quantities of higher priced dress shirts caught on to the cuff link popularity and expanded their lines of formal dress shirts to include cufflink-ready attire. Shirts and cufflinks began to be sold as a package.
By the late Victorian period, cufflinks and studs were essential to every gentleman’s wardrobe and as the century progressed, businessmen began wearing cufflinks and stud sets for casual wear and not just with a Tuxedo…
Prices came down and cuff links became affordable to the average middle-class gentleman.
Then a low point emerged.
los angeles clippers t shirt manufacturers began producing dress and tuxedo shirts with buttons already sewn onto the cuffs. There had to be a fight back and it is Tiffany and Cartier who are credited with bringing back the stud sets that remain popular today. The Cufflink was not going to be kicked aside by the Button that easily!
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