This French cuff is fashioned with a silk knot.

A French cuff or double cuff (primarily British) is a cuff on a dress shirt that is closed using cuff links instead of buttons (it is a link cuff, and is twice as long as a single cuff, but worn folded back on itself. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (885x604, 62 KB)A French cuff tied with a Silk knot. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (885x604, 62 KB)A French cuff tied with a Silk knot. ... Cuff link This set of cuff links and studs features pearl inlays. ... For other uses of the term cuff, see the disambiguation page. ... A dress shirt, often informally called a button-down shirt, is a mens shirt with a collar and a full-length opening down the front from the collar to the hem, fastened closed with buttons and a placket (American English usage). ... A cuff link, cufflink or cuff-link is a decorative fastener used to fasten or link the two portions of a french cuff, typically on a shirt or blouse. ...

Instead of cuff links, French cuffs can also be closed with silk knots, sometimes called monkey's fists, which are cheaper and just as formal. Silk knots tend to be better known in Europe than in North America. Cuff links and silk knots exist solely for shirts with link cuffs, either double or single. Monkeys fist Monkeys fist step by step A monkeys fist or monkey fist is a type of knot, so named because it looks somewhat like a small bunched fist. ...

French cuffs are considered to be more formal than button cuffs, although they are increasingly rare, especially in North America, and are nearly always optional and a matter of preference. If a standard suit (as opposed to a dinner jacket) is formal enough for an occasion, then so are button cuffs. For a job interview in a business environment, shirts with button cuffs are generally preferred to those with French cuffs. French cuffs are preferred for black tie. Black tie, known in the United Kingdom (and also in the north-eastern United States, and Canada) as a dinner jacket and in the United States generally as a tuxedo, is a dress code for formal evening events that are not formal enough to require white tie. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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