Archive for December, 2006

Stylish Cufflinks

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Cufflinks that have become a symbol of your status and class can be used in a variety of functions and the wedding ceremonies are not the limited functions for wearing cufflinks. Other than that you can wear them for evening balls to backyard brawl and in any imaginable event. Jewelers also create ornamental cufflinks as the demand grows. But the trends in cufflinks style and in their Stud set partners usually come simple.

  1. Cufflinks used as a replacement for cuffs buttons. Cufflinks exhibit style and class to your dress and add richness and sophistication to your appearance.
  2. For replacing buttons that are going down the center of shirts, the Stud Sets are worn.
  3. Though we wear Cufflinks and Stud sets with matching only, but there is no such strict rule for matching.
  4. It is always normal to have the cufflinks and stud sets to be matching with each other. If the cufflinks don’t match with stud sets, they at least compliment each other.
  5. When we use cufflinks made with gold or silver, be sure they match your watch or your wedding band. These being costlier items, it is always a must to exercise care and caution.
  6. Cufflinks when comes with “Theme” like animals, sports, with some specific profession or hobby are usually worn as a casual wear.
  7. We can use cufflinks that come as Juvenile ones like teddy bears or smiley faces are mostly preferred in children’s functions and also in family parties.
  8. Choose cufflinks with Semi precious-stones or with finer jewels for wedding parties and formal affairs.
  9. Any personality can wear the usual cufflinks.
  10. French cuffs and French cufflinks can only be used as formal wear, so some doubts lie in their usage.

We can gift cufflinks and Stud sets to any men or women it seems to be the perfect gift. They become valuable due to their uniqueness and rarity and they become gifts that are cherished for years to come.

Make sure to display its beauty and splendid nature when you buy any cufflink. It is not good to buy any cufflink for being cheaper.

Store the cufflinks in a good storage box. The well preserved cufflinks acts as an investment when you are in urgent need.

Proper preservation of your cufflinks will extend their life. So always keep them clean and polished.

Plan to wear your cufflinks in any auspicious occasion, but avoid them using in hard working day at office to prevent from scratching, dirtying or missing them.

Health Issues Related To Neckties

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

The debate of wearing neckties has the focal point on the issues of conformity, expectation and expression. Frank Lloyd Wright one of the great architects once announced that great architecture “form follows function’.

When the ties applied to fashion, their function as decorative apparel was criticized by this same principle. Arizona State University has passed a resolution of not discriminating on the basis of gender in the cases of the wearing of ties. This includes cross-gender choices also. But as for the time needed for these changes to occur, for the in-between time they produced one rule also based on this policy. The rule states all the men in Office of the President to wear proper ties as well as women to wear hose and heels for any ambassador visits or for any official meetings.

Even some men were fired from their employment by not confirming these rules of wearing proper ties. In the case of women even the employers of the modern society want the women to wear the same dress code as that of men, not to show any difference between employees.

The opposite group for necktie wearing states many risks to build support for their group. Some of the major risks they state are entanglement, infection and vascular constriction.

Of all this the main risk of entanglement happens to people who work around machineries or in situations like where there is a chance for small quarrels may occur. For an example in the situations like police and prison personnel and also in some specific medical fields.

It is advisable to wear clip-on varieties instead of ties to avoid risk in these situations. The clip-on type can be easily detached if some one grabbed it.

The risk of wearing ties in medical field occurs when doctors who wear tie will lean on the patients for health checkups, so the neckties come in contact with the patients. As the cleaning of necktie is lesser when compared to other apparels, the neckties will remain with the bacteria till cleaning. So to avoid bacterial infection doctors started wearing bow rather than neckties.

The third risk also occurs in the same medical field but in different angle, like vascular constriction. It happens when the ties are worn with tight neck collars. Studies in these cases shows an increase in intra-ocular pressure that can worse the patient’s condition if they already affected by weakened retinas. Also patients with glaucoma should handle in special care. To avoid all these risks we need some awareness only.

When you call paramedics for urgent help in the case of unconscious or some difficulty in breathing they first remove the ties from the victim’s neck collar to free the air way for an easy breath.

Seven Fold Four In Hand Necktie

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

The distinctive seven fold four in hand neck tie was almost forgotten, as these were very expensive. But they made a revived reentry after the revival economy of great depression. This is the most expensive necktie construction method ever known. Usually these ties comes with a designer label and sells to the price minimum $160 USD.

The seven fold necktie construction method shows us how ties constructed in the beginning. There will be no liner cloth like wool, cotton or canvas and also it rarely consists of silk with no woven pattern in it.

The method of construction seems to be simple but it really takes nearly an hour to produce the seven fold necktie. But in typical department stores ties can be constructed in 20 to 25 minutes.

To construct this type of tie we should first fold the square shaped silk into the seven sections of silk between the folds. Then the edges of the cloth are saddle stitched to avoid the edges from wear away by rubbing. After this the folds are fastened by a long thick twine or silk wire. The result of this construction is an attractive necktie.

The seven fold tie is having long life and looks very elegant when wearing. The tie’s weight and body comes from the silk layer.
With this silk layer the necktie forms an attractive, consistent and noticeable small dimple which forms under the knot.
These seven folds can be rebounding. Many times we may notice the common necktie shown as wrinkled because of its knot is left tied for longer. But with a seven-fold four- in- hand necktie this will not happen.

Many of the designers tried to take advantage of the seven-fold’s name to produce a hybrid necktie with some same beautiful qualities, but none came practically close. These types may contain liner material with only a part of silk. Also we may observe some series of folds at the bottom of the tie. But observation of thickness of the mid tie exhibits the end of the folds.

Instead of constructing the tie with quality silk they knot with regular lined ties and they are known as double four folds.

These seven-fold neckties can be identified by the absence of material and a lining visible between the layers or change in consistency in thick or thin to the whole length of the body. This type of necktie’s back shows the material’s woven pattern.

Finding Single Cufflinks That Match

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Looking online for single Cufflinks is a good idea. It costs less and the chances are that someone is also looking for a similar type of Cufflink and if you can a person to exchange your single cufflink for an equally good cufflink thereby solving problems for both of you.

Another idea is to advertise through local newspapers about your requirement. You have to spend a little at the start but you may not be able to realize what to expect and you may be able to get bigger proposals into a single cufflink niche market.

Magazine Advertisements are yet another good source for spreading the word about your requirement for a particular Cufflink. Select the local magazines on Men’s accessories and there are magazines that allow you to place a small picture of the Cufflink you want. Usually these types of Ads cost lesser than the Newspaper Ads.

Cufflink Collectors are great resource to get the cufflink you want. Classified Ads placed on Online Sources can easily make your requirements reach them, and you could draw their attention by providing resources connected with your requirement.

Webportals of Interest sharing nature like myspace or squdioo will help you in bringing in like minded people and you can create a topic in them to draw attention of the people who can help you.

Uploading a short video footage about the available cufflink and uploading the same to the YOUTUBE will help others actually see what your requirement is and help in letting others know what you require.

Contact the original Cufflink manufacturer if you can , then check with them if they have any spare single matching cufflink.

eBay is a great place to generate interest about your cufflink among the collectors, and if they have a matching cufflink they will come to you. So get your cufflink listed for Sales in eBay.

If you cant find what you are looking for in your Country search for that Cufflink when you are in another country and you can search in places of garage sales, unique stores or those places where you can find second hand goods sales and you may be surprised to find that you are able to find more than you were looking for.

A matching side coin theme may be a best alternative to your missing side on coin cufflink. Though it may not be good as original you might find it the best way to supplement your collections when everything else fails.

Offering a reward or deal always helps in motivating people to work for you in locating the missing cufflink and it is important before working out your offer or the deal to determine the value of your cufflinks and fix the deal accordingly.

Neckties during 18th and 19th Century

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

The neckties were named after Lord Byron, the great romantic poet who rarely worn neck cloth. The first Byron tie which introduced during 1820s had a big floppy bow in white, brown or black colors. After this in 1840s a Byron in string was introduced but in 1860 it changed in to a large, readymade bow.

Like Lord Byron another man named George Bryan “Beau” Brummell was also a reason for the change in fashion history in the early 19th century. His theory for fashion was a well dressed man in town wearing simple clothes, functional and discreet.

By wearing well cut, tailor stitched clothes; Brummell was the proud inventor for what was known as “The British Look”

In this style Brummell refused the frills which were the fashion during 18th century. His dress code with a dark blue coat, Buff-colored pantaloons and the waistcoat, Black boot shoes and a white neck cloth, today also remains with a little change like dark business coat and white shirt and as fresh white sports wear.

He was very particular in his white neck garment known as cravats. During his walk from the park, at gentleman’s clubs and fashionable homes in where Brummell attend often, he would stop there to change his cravats at least three times a day. He wanted his neck clothes to be slightly starched and to be folded with care.

As Brummell’s simple clothes attracted by the poor working man in lands to Brummell’s own friend, the Prince Regent, and King George IV was also adorned by this style. One unbelievable thing also happened in this period; the poor working men in lands easily snatched the fashion of upper class men.

The students of Cambridge University were the proud founders of the I Zingari Cricket in 1845. It was believed that they only first created the sporting colors in a flag.

At first they designed a flag in black, bright, orange-red and with golden colors. These colors symbolized “out of darkness, through fire, into light.” Later Blazers, caps and ties were also made in these sporting colors.

During the year 1880, the rowing club at Oxford University’s Exeter College One man’s Club, was the first who introduced first school ties. This school tie was created by removing the rowing club’s ribbon had bands from their boater hats and tied them together like four- in-hand.

The time when they ordered for the set of ties they created the school ties for nowadays with their hatbands colors. All the school, club and athletic ties seemed in plenty. Some schools used different ties to show difference in grades, levels in achievement and also for graduates.

Middle Class Pretensions:

Such ties were most welcomed by the great Victorian Middle class community. It is also used to show difference as an industrialist from the common community; men who want to show their social superiority and show their loyalty to the society used this type of ties.

Now in modern society, four-in-hand refers standard necktie and the knot used to tie it.