The cufflinks history starts with the 17th century monarch King Charles II, who had a flair for both form and function and also he was the beginner of modern cufflink fashion. As for that day a high fashionable man should wear shirts with lacy fronts and cuffs. A string was used to tie the cuff closed around the wrist. But King Charles used an ornamental button to pin the cuff in his coat to show more of the lace in his shirt sleeve. Later on this method was modified and the ornamental buttons changed in to modern cufflinks. Todays modern cufflink functions are as of the olden ones the only additional quality is the glossy appearance.
The main use of cufflinks is to keep the shirt cuff around the wrist. Now in this modern world the buttons in mens shirt cuffs serves as well as the cufflinks.
But when we want to wear cufflink, compulsorily we need a shirt with French cuffs or double cuffs. Shirts with single cuff were never taken off.
When we wear a French cuffs shirt, the first thing what we will notice is the extra material at the end of the sleeves. Sometimes it will threaten us by coming even to swallow our hands. But it is designed to be like that. What...