turnback cuffs on a dinner jacket

[Manself]

Is this an acceptable break with convention? Not to my mind, which makes this photograph remarkable:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/new ... /113258809

[NJS]

This is another image - satin cuffs this time:

http://www.google.com.br/imgres?imgurl= ... AQ&dur=129

I agree with you and don't think that it works. However, it does appear that the P o W has returned to bespoke after his adventure with T&A MTM.

NJS

[DFR]

I do not believe that the satin variant works but I do not see why HRH The Prince of Wales approach is fundamentally wrong. They actually look quite good.

[Concordia]

They seem to make more sense with shawl collars self-faced, with only a satin ribbon around the edge. Not that I like that style even without the turn-back cuffs, but it is at least consistent.

The first photo looks clean enough that it doesn't really distract. Which is not the same as making me want that detail.

[Gido]

Is that a portofino cuff on a jacket? This arrangement of cuffs and buttons looks overcrowded (and a bit contrived) to me.

[Manself]

Gido,
I'm not familiar with the term portofino cuff. Please will you explain what it involves? Where is this phrase used?

[Gido]

[NJS]

A former sales' manager of Turnbull & Asser, who made Connery's shirts like this, called them 'cocktail cuffs'.

NJS

[hectorm]

Just to add something I believe interesting to the conversation, check out these button-down cocktail cuffs. A bit too much, isn´t it?