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> WEARING WOMEN'S CUFFLINKS
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If you’ve been buying – or trying to buy – women’s cufflinks for the past five or ten years, you may have noticed something about their ‘links’ (the connecting and back parts). They change regularly.
Initially, most cufflinks either had straight posts with a bar that could be toggled flat for insertion through the buttonhole, or chains and bars. The obvious exception was the silk knot, made entirely of doubled cord tied as a turk’s head knot at either end. Then there was a vogue a couple of years ago for double-ended cufflinks with a fixed, curving stem and a ball at the back.
Cufflinks makers have had difficulties in developing a link that their customers find both easy to put on and comfortable to wear. The straight post/toggled bar option is comparatively easy to put on but can be uncomfortable because of its shape and general clunkiness. Chains and bars, on the other hand, can be fiddly to put on, even if their flexibility makes them more comfortable to wear.
The problem is worse for women. The straight post/toggled bar feels even more chunky and obtrusive on a smaller wrist, and the buttonholes on women’s shirts tend to be smaller than on men’s. What’s more, the bars used for men’s cufflinks are distinctly functional and masculine in appearance. Since they are seen almost as much as the ‘head’ of the cufflink – few of us nowadays keep our jackets on all the time – that appearance matters.
Cuff-Cuff’s solution has been to offer some lighter-weight bars and other types of cufflink ‘backs’ that look attractive in their own right. There is a lighter version of the traditional chain and bar link: for example, as used in the model Spun Roses (if you want to check out this or any other model, click on the link and then use your Back button to return to this page). Then there’s Cuff-Cuff’s feminine version of the fixed post/toggled bar. Here, the toggle is an elegant silver oval, as used in Opal Delights. Finally there are double-headed cufflinks with chains, similar to the silk knots, as in the model Chinoiseries. In some double-headed models, either the back ‘head’ is smaller than the one at the front, as in the model Satellites, or the back ‘head’ is shaped like a button, as in the model Telstars. Both the smaller size and the button shape make it easier to put the cufflinks on.
If you find any form of fixed post uncomfortable, however lightweight and delicate it is, don’t despair. Putting on cufflinks which have chains rather than fixed stems needn’t be difficult. The trick is to ensure that the chain is as short as possible. If in your experience cufflinks hang loosely in the cuffs, let us know and we can shorten the chain by a link or two (normally there are five links to the whole chain). Ideally, your cuffs should fit your wrists snugly.
Of course, if your wrists are very slender and you can’t find double cuffed shirts anywhere that fit them, you do have one advantage – you can choose whatever type of 'link' you find most comfortable and fit the cufflinks before you put on your shirt!
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