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#1 2010-04-18 00:05:30
- ckav
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Cufflinks that are irwristable
My meager collection stands at 5 sets;2 sterling silver with oval MOP and Onyx doubles with chain connectors,a set found at an estate sale ( California garage) relatively inexpensive and nice beyond their cost, chain connected in Siam silver and niello with elephant and finally Amita and mixed metal chain links with the obligatory Mount Fuji. All of them discretely small, a bit of a pita to secure. I had this snob attitude, with my cufflinks at least I was proper, the best in style.
I was in a thrift store ( please don't ask) and, with my usual rational judgment walked out with a set of copper cufflinks and tieclip for $1.25+ tax. They are HUGE and TOGGLED.
I rationalised my packed away rust/white paisley on brown Sam Hober tie and copper silk square would someday set off a presentation yet unrealised, perhaps deservedly so. I went to the public library and did a search for the maker's stamp GRET BARKIN New Hope Pennsylvania. Well damn! The lady died in her late 90s and is collectable for her intricate and multilayered jewelry, specialising in copper and still modest prices. Modest? I learned she seldom made cufflinks and a complete set will sell easilly for $50.
So in my small box they sit, like those birds who lay their eggs in smaller bird's nests to murder their rivals and be fed by proxy parents, matching the combined others in dimension.
Maybe they'll push out those 3 silk knots I bought long ago.
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#2 2010-04-21 06:01:01
- mensmetals09
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
HEY!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the post. I am a doing a education in the present. So I'd not like to ware a formals. But sometimes I've to. Because I have to look good with the Quality Cufflinks. So would prefer that.
#3 2010-04-21 10:55:31
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
If I go with cufflinks, which is ultra rare, it will generally be Duchamp. I went through a fad of wearing cufflinks constantly for about three months, seeking out superlative cufflinks and french cuffs, vowing I would never return to OCBD's. Then a new guy started at work, who had just come off working on the oil rigs, and he affected this style as a uniform and a way in to the realm of 'the office'. What I mean cheap cufflinks and shirts, made me feel uncomfortable that I looked a plonker like him.
Maybe I will go with cufflinks tomorrow, see how it goes again.....naaahhhhhhh.
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#4 2010-04-21 14:23:26
- ckav
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
I was in the military. Off Duy I wore a issue leather flight jacket and sported a carefully clipped moustache as per grooming regulations. I'm walking down a street in Alameda California and this flaming queen in a leather flight jacket and moustache runs in front of a truck crossing over to me. I've got this creature with a recently broken nose dribbling snott all excited and asking me to have drinks with him. He wouldn't take no so I knew where the busted nose came from. I finally got back to base and a class act gay who was 'out' to very few trusted friends laughed and said leather bomber jackets and moustaches were a gay style.I shaved the moustache and stowed the jacket with no little resentment.
I hate it when something is bowdlerised, but will be damned if I ever give my selections up for anybody again. I don't wear my links all the time, but maybe I should wear them more.
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#5 2010-04-23 12:36:16
- ckav
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
Who was it, said " The search is half the fun?" I dropped by a local dealer in vintage jewelry and watches. The proprietor's wife was wearing a copper pin and I suprised her naming the maker. An hour later saw my overly large cufflink set on her husband and I with hallmarked sterling chained scarabs from the egyptian revival.
#6 2010-04-25 13:24:09
- eg
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
I should add, from experience, a warning -- wives and daughters will give you kitschy links that they will then expect you to wear.
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#7 2010-04-25 13:37:40
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
^Yes, and more than likely they will buy you white "OCBD's" from the local Warner Brothers shop with cartoon charactor logos embroided on the chest that they also will expect you to wear on birthday's or when you take them to a restaurant.
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#9 2010-04-25 14:31:49
- ckav
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Re: Cufflinks that are irwristable
I've only suffered that once. I dated a stunning blonde who slowly revealed a utterly ruthless native stupidity in everything but bed and didn't know who steven seagull was when he hit on her and I almost hit him back.
I received a faux alligator wallet and musk cologne ( I have a old Coach and use Alt Innsbruk,Woods of Windsor and Bois du Portugal.)
I knew it was doomed wehn she suggested I buy a black suit, pink shirt and shave less often.
My romanian fiancee won my heart when she said " I like men who wear ties, don't smell and polish shoes. Shoes are expensive. You may wear a pink handkerchief and no more.'
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