French Cuff question

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kirsch
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:06 pm

Hello all,

I have a couple of French cuff shirts that have two holes on each sleeve for the cufflink on the INNER layer of the cuff. (The outer layer has only one.)

What's the point of this?

(Let me know if I did not explain that well enough.)

thanks,
chris
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:59 pm

Makes it easier to shorten the sleeve-- just roll up the cuff an extra 1/4 inch.
Cufflink79
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:55 pm

Concordia wrote:Makes it easier to shorten the sleeve-- just roll up the cuff an extra 1/4 inch.


Concordia is correct.

BTW Kirsch, are the shirts your talking about made by Thomas Pink?

I have a few of them and the reason they did that is because at the time they made the shirts in even sizes, for instance I am 17 1/2 35 they had a 17 1/2 36.

I have not used the roll up cufflink hole, the shirt fits fine. I think they do odds and evens now, it has been a while since I have brought a Thomas Pink.

Best Regards,

Cufflink79
Khnelben
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Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:59 am

that's just done to make the sleeves shorter.

In London, many shirtmakers have shirts with different lengths of sleeves (like Lewin), hence only one hole for the link
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Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:40 am

Khnelben wrote:that's just done to make the sleeves shorter.

In London, many shirtmakers have shirts with different lengths of sleeves (like Lewin), hence only one hole for the link
Most better British shirtmakers, apart from Harvie and Hudson, offer only one sleeve length in their RTW. They then will shorten them for a small fee. New & Lingwood has the the double cufflink hole too, but H&K and Budd don't; I don't think T&A does either.
Khnelben
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Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:18 am

T&A doesn't do double holes, that's for sure, H&K I am not sure.

I am not sure if Lewin's MTM is popular ))

Marks&Spencer does double holes.

The problem is that any athletic person, will probbaly have difficulties with sleeve length, whereas he has broader shoulders than are envisaged with standard collar sizes

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Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:44 pm

Tyrwhitt does--or at least did--the two holes for length tweaking as well.
kirsch
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Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:16 pm

Cufflink79,

No...the shirt is actually one I purchased at Macy's (not real high quality). I think it's a whopping "Donald Trump" collection or something.

My nicer, more expensive shirts do not have the 2-hole feature.

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Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:09 pm

Kirsh, what a wonderful feature. Now my next shirt finally has a solution to the problem with the short sleeve length all those tailors in Shanghai are unable to solve.
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