HOW TO CHOSE THE RIGHT CUFFLINKS?
Clothes style and elegance result from a subtle match of the parts it is made of: shirt, trousers, jacket, tie, but also belt, shoes, cufflinks, watch etc.
Colour
First, you can notice that cufflinks colour is not defined by materials colour (gold, silver, steel etc.), but by its pattern.
Exemple:
Brighton black :
Faubourg :
To match your cufflinks with your clothes, you can follow one of the three following rules:
Exemple:
Brighton black :
Faubourg :
To match your cufflinks with your clothes, you can follow one of the three following rules:
Tone on tone
Your cufflinks colour is the same as your shirt coulour; brightness only can differ (more or less dark).
Exemple:
Exemple:
Analogous colours
Your cufflinks colour are different from your shir colour, but both are very close to each other on the colour circle.
The colour circle:
Exemple:
The colour circle:
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Complementary colours
Your cufflinks colour and your shirt colour are opposite to each other on the colour circle.
Exemple:
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Colour repeat
Your cufflinks colour is the same as the colour of another accessory: tie, belt and shoes (your belt must be the same colour as your shoes).
Material
Your cufflinks material must match with other accessories: watch and other jewels, as well as your belt buckle. All those parts should be in the same material (if not, they should at least be the same tone, for instance gold and gold-plated steel or silver, aluminium and silver-plated steel). However, you can avoid taking wedding rings which size is usually small into account.
Thus, if you wear a gold watch, you should be sure to wear gold-plated cufflinks.
Thus, if you wear a gold watch, you should be sure to wear gold-plated cufflinks.
