Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

It begs the question...... does he have any shirts that require cufflinks?

I wonder what percentage of shirts made these days don't have cuff buttons?

That brings back memories..........when I was a child, all my dad's shirts needed cufflinks, and he kept an assortment in a tray in his bedside drawer.

When you think about it objectively, they are a bit weird, given that buttons have been around for centuries.


Now I'll have to google the history of the cufflink!
(The things I do at 6.30 in the morning! :rotfl:)





Edit.

Well, it seems that the cufflink is a relatively recent invention.....19C. This coincided with dress becoming quite formalised and standardised for men. Before then, shirts had been loose and the arms ended in floppy or frilly bits.


Quote from Wiki....
"In the 19th century the former splendour of the aristocracy was superseded by the bourgeois efficiency of the new employed classes. From then onward men wore a highly conventional wardrobe: a dark suit by day, a dinner jacket or tailcoat in the evening.
By the middle of the 19th century the modern cufflink became popular. The shirt front as well as collar and cuffs covering areas of the most wear were made sturdier. This was practical but when clean and starched, collars and cuffs underscored the formal character of the clothing. However, they could be too stiff to secure the cuffs with a simple button. As a consequence, from the mid 19th century onward men in the middle and upper classes wore cufflinks. The industrial revolution meant that these could be mass-produced, making them available in every price category."

So that was why. Collars and cuffs were made thicker, to delay wear, and then starched, so were too stiff to button up.

Apparently, there are two types of cuff: kissing cuffs, where the two edges press together, requiring cufflinks that have two ornate plates, as they are both on show, and barrel-edge cuffs, where one edge overlaps the other, and can be joined by toggle-type links, where only one plate needs to be on show.


Toggle-type links with swivel-bars............



Double-panelled type..........





French cuffs have a double layer of material.

And, my goodness! I never realised there were so many different types and styles of cuffs!



And finally, the word cuff comes from the 14C cuffe, a hand-covering, mitten or glove. As the bottom of a sleeve, it dates from 1520.
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michaels

Double cuff ahirts certainly used to be derigguer in certain 'proffessions'...how ever I never bothered, my stregy has alays been to look like part of the team rather than going out of my way to look like an expensive add on. I guess it is the same psychology as estate agents turning up in expensive cars trying to look very posh and expensive.

Pyxis

Michaels, I've been meaning to ask you for ages..... who is the lovely lady in your avatar?

Nikkster

Pyxis wrote: »

Michaels, I've been meaning to ask you for ages..... who is the lovely lady in your avatar?

It's Kelis

Pyxis

Thanks. I'd never heard of her!

(Trots off to YouTube...........)

silvercar

For a (sort of) money saving visit to the Shard, it is cheaper to buy drinks at the GONG bar than a trip to the viewing gallery.

Pyxis

Just found out that it's Random Acts of Kindness Week!

Some of the things people have done have been very interesting.

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

It's Kelis

Thanks. Originally, I thought that the avatar was Michael's DW.

Milkshake. I'd never heard it called that before, so I've learned something today. But it's such a repetitive song!

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

It begs the question...... does he have any shirts that require cufflinks?

Erm nope, he actually owns only one shirt!

I did point out to him that he doesn't possess anything that he could wear the cufflinks with but he just replied "Shiny......"

Maybe it will prompt him to want to purchase more shirts, we can only hope eh? :rotfl:

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

For a (sort of) money saving visit to the Shard, it is cheaper to buy drinks at the GONG bar than a trip to the viewing gallery.

We did look at things like this in an outside of the box thinking kind of way but Joe really really dislikes bars, he doesn't have his age ID yet (waiting for him to get with the programme and ask his PPT to sign his passport application) and no one on this earth would ever believe he is coming up to his 19th birthday...he still looks like a 12 year old due to his size.

Plus, we all wanted to do the whole touristy thing of being able to say we went to the top, sad I know.

We even, on first viewing of the prices on the internet, thought about abandoning the idea and going for the Walkie Talkie building opposite which is free. Unfortunately there were not enough places available for all of us to do it. I think we would have had regrets though if there had been available places, the boys certainly would have been saying they wished they were up the top in the Shard.