How to choose your twins?

Male elegance is made of beautiful clothes, but it also passes through details and jewels, especially because men wear less than women. However, men’s jewelry is not limited to watches and bracelets.

Men can also wear necklaces or rings, but if there is a small accessory that represents male style and elegance, it is undoubtedly the cufflink. Having fallen into disuse towards the end of the 20th century, cufflinks have returned to fashion in men’s wardrobes in the last fifteen years. They were mainly used in certain business contexts and for special occasions such as weddings.

Today the accessory has been renewed and updates the musketeer shirt (French cuff), allowing men to stand out by wearing this jewel in various shapes and colors.

Metals

The metals used to make cufflinks are important because they determine the strength and durability of your jewelry.

Brass

The metal that is often found for buttons at prices below 100 euros is brass. It is a rather malleable alloy of copper and zinc, which leaves free rein to the imagination regarding the shape of the button. This nonferrous alloy is often coated with silver or rhodium plating.

stainless steel

Also called stainless steel, this steel contains approximately 10% chromium, making it more resistant to oxidation.

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Solid silver, like brass, is a malleable metal in its pure state, which is why its preferred composition is 925 silver with 92.5% pure silver and the remainder of a harder metal, often copper, to provide solidity to the alloy. The solid silver cufflinks have a very noble characteristic shine that connoisseurs will not fail to identify.

The hor

Solid gold cufflinks are rare and expensive, reserved for luxury jewelry. Therefore you will often find gold-colored brass buttons in the base band or gold-plated 925 silver in the top band. They are more difficult to match than silver ones and this color is often reserved for special occasions.

Rhodium

Rhodium is a silver-colored precious metal, from the platinum family, with antioxidant and antibacterial properties. It has the advantage of not causing allergies, which may explain why it is widely used as a coating. Protects jewelery from air and sweat, thus preventing silver or brass from tarnishing.

Palladium

This silvery-white precious metal is part of the platinum group and has the advantage of not oxidizing, unlike silver. More valuable than copper and zinc, used for 14- and 18-karat gold.

MATERIALS SET

The wood

Wood is a warm material and the essences chosen such as walnut, cherry or oak often have a light and modern colour, giving style to your look.

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Precious and semi-precious stones

Precious stones such as sapphire, ruby ​​and diamond are mainly used to make personalized jewellery, but you can find models in semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli, onyx or sodalite, wonderful materials that give elegance and character to your wrists.

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Mother of pearl

Mother of pearl is a material with beautiful shades also used for the other buttons on the shirt. Perfect for a subtle and natural reminder.

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Skin

Leather is less common and, like wood, is a warm material that gives a rough edge to your outfit.

Enamel

Enamel is a layer of vitrified minerals on the surface of the button. It can be colored with metal oxides or simply painted. This material allows us to offer all possible colors and thus create both classic and imaginative cufflinks.

CLASSIC OR UNUSUAL PATTERNS

We often distinguish classic models from unusual ones. But the shape and pattern of your cufflinks mostly depends on your taste. Today it is easier in a professional context to wear a little fantasy because work outfits have evolved.

The black, formal suit has given way to navy blue or gray suits from original materials. Simply find cufflinks easily to highlight the colors and give depth to your style.

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If the classic bores you, you will soon discover a vast choice of cufflinks with unusual shapes and models, especially on the Internet and from some brands.

HOW TO WEAR YOUR CUFFLINKS?

Now that you have discovered the materials and styles of cufflinks, we will see how to wear them.

Daily

If you want to wear cufflinks daily at work, your choice will be determined by your company and location. If you can play the originality card, do it! Choose the ones you want, depending on your mood of the day.

Otherwise you still have the choice between many classic and elegant models from most cufflink brands.

For an event

Is there a ceremony coming up? Now is the time to choose cufflinks that are both elegant and chic with beautiful materials, silver, gold, semi-precious or precious stones or mother of pearl.

If you want to make your mark, you can create your own jewels or cufflinks, or choose a model to personalize. This way you get unique buttons with an engraved date, text, initials or pattern. A souvenir to remember an important event.

How to match your cufflinks?

When we talk about the color of twinit’s about the model and not the material of the foot. To have consistency and avoid mistakes it is usual to combine them with at least one color present in the outfit. The color recall can be done with other jewels but above all with the colors of your outfit.

Depending on the color of your outfit

For a simple reminder, match the buttons to your jacket or your accessories (shoes, belt, tie), all with a different colored shirt.

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But you can also choose tone on tone with, for example, blue buttons

light on a blue shirt.

Also think about complementary colors like gold and blue, brown with white, blue and red…

In the same spirit you can play with analogous colors, that is, different but close on the color wheel. For example navy blue buttons with a light blue shirt.

Depending on your other jewelry (watches, bracelets, etc.)

It can be interesting to pair brown wooden buttons and a brown leather watch strap for a subtle reminder, but be careful not to fall into the ‘bling-bling’ trap of necessarily wanting to pair gold-coloured cufflinks with a large gold-coloured watch. Also think about the tie clip! Ideal for adding style to your outfit with this small accessory to choose from in the same material and color as your buttons.

Of course, you can also choose a bright color that doesn’t match your outfit at all, if you want a touch of eccentricity or simply wear a specific button for an occasion.

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