Cufflinks

[Accy cyclist]

Harris Tweed anyone?

 

[Milkfloat]

A few a few pairs in a back of the 'bits n' bobs' drawer by my bed. I don't think I have worn them for 10 years or more, even when I meet with automotive customers who love a shirt and tie, I very rarely wear a tie and never wear the cuff links. 99.9% of my life I would prefer to be in shorts and a t-shirt so I generally need to be paid well to dress up.

 

[numbnuts]

I bought these for my bother-in-laws 70th

 

[Cycleops]

I just had a look on ebay, and hammer and sickle emblem cufflinks can be had at very proletarian prices. Some claim to be Red Army design but I would have to confirm if officers of the Red Army ever wore such borgeois accessories.

I bet old Jezza would have grabbed a pair of those and worn them with pride if he'd known about them. Perfect for the meeting with the Chinese officials too.

 

[Venod]

Regarding ties, I spent the last 10 years of my working life office bound, more people wore ties than didn't, my boss would often remark at my lack of one, but we were an engineering office, I couldn't see the need for a tie so didn't.
Many years before this when as a maintenance fitter in a factory, one of the old boys on the team wore a tie everyday while doing machine maintenance.

 

[Cycleops]

Cufflinks have gone the same way as hats and ties.
I remember staring in city office in the late sixties. My much older immediate boss and most others in the office wore a hat and most wore a bowler. Shirts with attached collars were looked down on and you sent your collars off to starched at Collars in Wembley. They came back in a cardboard box almost as stiff as the collars.

 

[ColinJ]

many years before this when as a maitenance fitter in a factory, one of the old boys on the team wore a tie everyday while doing machine maintenance.

Hopefully, a clip-on tie!

 

[Fergs]

Having decided to wear ‘trousers and shirt’ at work (for ease of surreptitious job interview attendance and so that I associate normal clothes with my own time) I quite like cuff links: they’re the only form of sartorial self-expression I had left.

 

[Accy cyclist]

They came back in a cardboard box almost as stiff as the collars.

On about stiff collars,i only buy non button down collar shirts that have 'bones' in them now.

https://pinkshirtmaker.com/product/...23VnQyTZ0SnCnash4NsctF7lWF7wsmFhoCFuQQAvD_BwE

 

[Venod]

Hopefully, a clip-on tie

Usualy tucked in a V neck jumper under his boiler suit.

 

[Drago]

Why was Jerzi Corbynski meeting the Chinese? Was he hoping for a free ebike conversion kit?

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Cufflinks have gone the same way as hats and ties.
I remember staring in city office in the late sixties. My much older immediate boss and most others in the office wore a hat and most wore a bowler. Shirts with attached collars were looked down on and you sent your collars off to starched at Collars in Wembley. They came back in a cardboard box almost as stiff as the collars.

Disagree. I've worn cufflinks for past thirty plus years, as Fergs said, allowing a degree of sartorial elegance.

Have worn shirt and tie from starting school in 1968 through to 1982, and at work 1982 until end March this year, since when I've been working from home in shorts and t-shirt, surprisingly enough, without cufflinks.

 

[Cycleops]

I’m on your side @Toshiba Boy i love cuff links because they look elegant and you can promote your interests with them, but you you can see by the majority of comments that the move now is away from formal dress which I think is a shame.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

I’m on your side @Toshiba Boy i love cuff links because they look elegant and you can promote your interests with them, but you you can see by the majority of comments that the move now is away from formal dress which I think is a shame.

I certainly have not been very formally dressed for the last five months

 

[lazybloke]

Not sure if I've I told my story about missing cufflinks - and other things .

The event was a posh garden party at a friend's house for her significant birthday celebration. She's amazingly arty and had put decorations and lights up in the garden that made the place look absolutely stunning. All the guests were dressed up to the nines. Caterers were serving food and cocktails. This was class.

But I had spent the week on a campsite cooking over open fires so I reeked of smoke. My wife had collected me from the campsite and we straight to the party. She'd brought a change of clothes that I'd packed a week earlier, and we'd agreed with the hostess that i'd shower and change at her house.

So I quietly slipped upstairs to the bathroom, showered, and started to dress. The double cuffs on the shirt made me reaslise I'd not packed any cufflinks, but it was the lack of any buttons at all on the shirt that stumped me for a moment. In my hurry when buying the shirt, I'd chosen one that needed studs (which I don't own).
But these were trivial issues when I realised my biggest blunder- I'd packed the dinner jacket, but not any trousers!

Couldn't possibly wear jeans that were so smoky they could stand up by themselves, so I chose to join the party in my boxers plus "manly" chest on display.


Strangely, there were some novely false moustaches at that party. I donned one of these, and somewhere, someone has a group photo, of about 50 people , all the picture of elegance, and me - looking like a very bad Freddie Mercury impersonator.

Waiting to hear if I'll ever be invited back to another party.