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Holes in shirt cuffs - WHY?

grumpytrousers · 2005-09-23 10:54:24

This has been bugging me for ages; anybody who knows and can put me out of my misery, please do. You get a fancy 'dress' shirt with NO buttons on the cuffs, but there are four holes, and the idea is that you fold back the cuff, insert set of cuff links and away you go. Brilliant! Take a bog standard shirt and you just…

23-09-2005 11:54am

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grumpytrousers

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This has been bugging me for ages; anybody who knows and can put me out of my misery, please do.

You get a fancy 'dress' shirt with NO buttons on the cuffs, but there are four holes, and the idea is that you fold back the cuff, insert set of cuff links and away you go. Brilliant!

Take a bog standard shirt and you just insert button into hole on cuff and off you trot. However, on a lot of shirts, there's a hole on both sides of the cuff.

WHY? It's not like you can get the dress shirt effect on a 'no-fold' cuff, now is it. And even if you didn't care, you'd have to go to the trouble of removing offending buttons, right?

Or is the idea that you can buy cuffs to attach to normal shirts...like you used be able to do with collars yonks ago...

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#2 23-09-2005 12:00pm

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To give you the option of using cuff links???

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