The elegance is an art. For centuries, fashion accessories have largely contributed to this art. Still today, accessories make it possible to bring the detail which makes the difference in your behaviour . This accessory has become essential.

Although relatively recent in the fashion history (to see the heading History), cufflinks has become the symbol of male elegance. The male jewels are relatively rare. The elegant men are made themselves conspicuous by a watch, a pen or their cufflinks.

To have cufflinks is not enough, still should it be known when and how to wear them. This heading gives you some elementary rules to know how to wear cufflinks in all circumstances.

When to wear cufflinks ?

During the day

To add an elegance key to your behaviour, you decided to wear shirts with mousquetaire cuffs (french cuffs). Fortunately, these shirts are back. For proof, the young creators redraw french cuffs. With designers, famous brands or tailors, it becomes difficult to make a choice. Those who think that there are very few shirts with french cuffs, should go and see manufacturers of taylored-made shirts. Sold in shop, by mail-order or on the websites, these shirts allow you to choose among a vast materials range and to find the good collar measurement, sleeve length, for a price often equal to your usual shirts.

During the day, possibilities to wear cufflinks are vast. Little or no limit in your cufflinks choice. You will have simply to be attentive to the color (see below). Leave the choice to your taste and your imagination. From most traditional to most original, choose your cufflinks according to your mood, your timetable and the image which you wish to transmit to people. Cufflinks remain one of only fancies which an elegant man can allow in his behaviour. Profit in !

During the evening

Easier to wear in the evening, you must respect some rules. The dinner-jacket wearing is increasingly rare and I remind you that cufflinks will have to be the color of your shirt (white) or more rarely the color of your jacket (black). Attention with gold or silver cufflinks which are very conspicuous with dinner-jacket. I remind you that you should never wear a gold, silver or metal wrist-watch in the evening. Leave your large steel watch and its wrist for the morning, the afternoon or the weekend. A beautiful watch with a black leather wrist will be more elegant with dinner-jacket.

With a traditional suit, possibilities are more significant than with a dinner-jacket. Nevertheless, you will have to remember that your suit will be always of dark colour (gray dark, black, navy blue). Cufflinks will be able to become jewels : gold, silver or even precious stones can decorate your wrists.

For a ceremony (engagement, marriage...) :

For a ceremony, cufflinks become an essential accessory. Silver or gold, they will be matched with the color of your wedding ring. For color cufflinks, be moderate and choose again the colour of your shirt (white or beige) or of your waistcoat.

How to choose cufflinks ?

Gold or silver ?

The metal choice, precious or not, will be guided by the jewels which you will wear. Try, as far as possible, to match your cufflinks with your watch. No silver cufflinks with a gold watch and inversely. If you wear a leather wrist-watch, it will be easier to choose cufflinks matched with your wedding-ring or your signet-ring.

Which color ?

Color buttons will be always matched with the color of your shirt to be tone on tone or with the color of your tie. If you decide to be different, choose a color which tone in perfectly with your tie colour.

I hope these advice will guide you to choose your cufflinks and will help you to wear them with elegance. And never forget that the accessory is essential.