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| Kissing cuffs; missing links | | | SIDDHARTH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 26: Though they were one of the most elegant men's ornament decorated on the cuffs of their shirts, the cuff-links today find no great importance as men's wear with trends now having shifted to other means.
Earlier the fashion strategy of the men used to carry with them a smart tingling attachment on their shirt's cuff that gathered his counterpart's attention and had been a source of delivering a sense among them about his aura more refined and elegant.
Now the fashion is almost a bygone history.
"I do not remember when last time somebody had approached me with a requirement for a cufflink to be stitched in his shirt. The fashion is gone obsolete and no body cares for its reinvention," says Satish Kumar a Mumbai returned tailor at Amphala chowk.
Except on casual attire, shirt cuffs are generally divided down one edge and then fastened together, so they can let a hand through and then fit more snugly around the wrist.
Since we can trace every significant movement in art through the design of
cufflinks, the fashion that has virtually died down may not gather anybody's attention now. "I would love to go for "kissing cuffs" that tie both the flaps pinched together with each other cuffs. I had a fascination for such artistry with my clothing which now has faded into the oblivion," laments Kamal Kishore Sharma, retired director Sports Council Jammu and Kashmir. Originally a resident of Hari Singh High Street Srinagar, Kamal Kishore says that the trend in cuff links originated in the state with the advent of some of the royal families of British hierarchy in Kashmir after the independence that brought along this fashion that charmed the people here also.
The most expensive cufflinks ever sold were a pair given to the King Edward VIII by his later wife Wallis Simpson. These featured diamonds set in platinum and sold at auction for $440,000
"Here in Jammu and Kashmir, the replicas of the famous artistry in platinum and gold were also sold which carried the nuances of the originality but at an affordable prices," informs former Director adding that the middle classes adopted cufflinks, but unable to
afford the silver or enamel cufflinks they used replicas such as fake diamonds and gold-coloured alloys with foil backing instead.
Cufflinks are designed only for use with link cuffs, also known as French Cuffs or double cuffs, which have buttonholes on both sides but no buttons .
These may be either single or double-length cuffs, and may be worn either "kissing," with the ends pinched together, or "barrel-style," with one end overlapping the other. Kissing cuffs are usually preferred.
Cufflink Museum in Conway, New Hampshire, is the only biggest source in the world that proudly displays over 70,000 pairs.
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