Hey, everybody, it’s Andrew Esquivel here and today I’m going to show you how to wear
cufflinks.
I’m going to tell you a secret that most people don’t realize when trying to wear
cufflinks: not all dress shirts for men are made to wear cufflinks.
Which means, if you’re the average Joe like me, you’re not going to realize that.
And I’m going to explain to you why.
What I have here is a shirt from the brand “Arrow” and as you can see one side has
a cufflink, the other does not.
Let me explain to you why this shirt is not made for cufflinks.
On this side we have the cufflink.
If you look closely, you’ll see that there is four layers.
One, two, three, four.
Four layers.
That’s because if you take a shirt and you fold it like you’re supposed to, the cuff
is supposed to fold.
[Folding the shirt sleeve] You fold it nice and neat.
And instead of folding it like that you are supposed to have it flat like that.
As you can see the other side is like that.
Moving back to here, this is the part where I explain why most shirts aren’t made for
cufflinks.
You have got the four layers, but as you noticed, only two of the four layers are capable of
having holes.
To modify, you have to cut this button off and then you’re going to have to make a
hole through the other two inner layers to go all the way through, so that it comes out
here.
And that is how you put a cufflink in.
Some shirts are made to wear cufflinks, so they already have four holes ready.
If you, like me, have a bunch of shirts that don’t have the holes, then you have to make
a quick modification.
It can be done with a single pair of scissors within a minute.
Going into more detail about what it looks like when you modify the shirt – I’m going
to take this cufflink off.
As you see it just slides right off, it’s a modern cufflink where you push down like
that and you get the cufflink.
So this was the original hole and down here is where the button used to be.
I took it off, made a hole, and then above it there’s a hole.
And right here, there’s another hole, on top of that, of course, is the original hole
for the button to go through.
Once you have made those holes with whatever method you choose, you simply slide the cufflink
through all the holes and sometimes it’s a little tricky.
Keep going through each one of the layers and once you are through all the layers you
turn it and voila – you have a cufflink.
It’s not going to look perfect if you do it yourself, because it’s a mediocre job.
!!! That’s because I made a quick job out of it, it’s nothing special.
I’d say take it to a tailor.
So you do that with the shirts that are not made for cufflinks.
And once you do it, it’ll be fine.
However, big note: when you’re buying a shirt, you’re probably going to be like
me: you put the shirt on and you think: “It ends on my wrist - it must be the perfect
size.”
No.
If you want to wear a cufflink, you have to fold it, which means it’s going to be a
few inches shorter than when it hits your wrist.
To give you an example, it’s going to be right here, because when you fold it, that’s
how it works.
If you unfold it, it reaches your wrist, you fold it – it doesn’t.
So when you’re buying a shirt, make sure that when it’s unfolded, it at least comes
a few inches above your wrist, because that way when you fold it, it compensates and then
fits your wrist perfectly.
If you don’t do that, you will end up with what I did and it will be this short and it’s
not going to feel very comfortable and it’s not going to look good under the suit.
There are a few tips for you and that’s how you make an easy modification to your
shirt for cufflinks.
[Folding] And there you go, once again, that is the flatten part without the cufflink,
this is the flatten part with the cufflink.
A lot of videos on Youtube do not tell you what just told you, because they’re assuming
you have shirts that are already designed to wear cufflinks.
None of my shirts are made to wear cufflinks [laughs], so I thought this might be an informative
video for a bunch of you, guys, who never really wear cufflinks.
So, I hope it was informative, hope it helped.
If you have any questions, put them in the comments, maybe I’ll know.
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