topic Re: French Cuff in Fashion

French Cuff

Group 5 minus 1 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:32:07 GMT

What is a french cuff? A641791

Re: French Cuff

Kachina624 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:36:39 GMT

@Group 5 minus 1. It's a wide cuff turned back, often worn with cuff links. Very common in dressy men's shirts.

A641791 is not a true French cuff. It's a turned back cuff.

Re: French Cuff

cheriere — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:39:25 GMT

I ADORE a crisp white shirt with large, bold French cuffs. However, the "French cuffs" normally claimed to be on QVC pieces are quite measly in comparison.😔

Re: French Cuff

BirkiLady — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:50:38 GMT

I'm guessing the sleeves (thus, the French cuffs) should be visible in the picture you referred with an Item # posted in your original post. Sorry, but I didn't look at it before responding.

On my silk blouses with french cuffs, the cuffs are doubled back and held together (to close the open sides) with 14K (yellow or white gold) cufflinks I've inherited from my family as gifts over the decades.
French cuffs are my favorite cuff on a long sleeved blouse. Sometimes French cuffs are closed with buttons or pearl inserts rather than cufflinks with precisious or semi-precisious stones in the 14K metal.

Men often wear French cuffs with their suits . . . and cufflinks, of course.

Re: French Cuff

Kachina624 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:53:24 GMT

I'd love to have a crisp, white big shirt with true French cuffs in which I could use cuff links. You rarely see women's shirts like that. I've yet to find one.

Re: French Cuff

Desertdi — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:36:18 GMT

Re: French Cuff

SilleeMee — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:47:03 GMT

The shirt has 'turnback cuffs', not French cuffs. The name of that item is wrong.

Re: French Cuff

Group 5 minus 1 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:36:07 GMT

Thanks to Sillee and Kachina.

Re: French Cuff

Greeneyedlady21 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:45:45 GMT

I have a red Louis Dell Olio wing collar button down shirt with French cuffs, it's one of my favorite tops. I got a great deal on it on eBay.

Re: French Cuff

cheriere — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:08:14 GMT

@SilleeMee

You're exactly right! They always call a puny turn back cuff a French cuff.

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frenchie — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:44:39 GMT

That brought back a memory for me. I wore a grey jumper uniform to Catholic high school. Wore a white French cuff shirt with it and cuff links. Classy.

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Icegoddess — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:02:08 GMT

I love French cuffs and cuff links. I used to have a French Cuff shirt many years ago.

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Franklinbell — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:56:37 GMT

I love shirts with a French cuffs! I have a few and I have my dad's cuff links. I think I'll wear one tomorrow!

Re: French Cuff

Nonametoday — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:37:48 GMT

@BirkiLady wrote:
I'm guessing the sleeves (thus, the French cuffs) should be visible in the picture you referred with an Item # posted in your original post. Sorry, but I didn't look at it before responding.

On my silk blouses with french cuffs, the cuffs are doubled back and held together (to close the open sides) with 14K (yellow or white gold) cufflinks I've inherited from my family as gifts over the decades.
French cuffs are my favorite cuff on a long sleeved blouse. Sometimes French cuffs are closed with buttons or pearl inserts rather than cufflinks with precisious or semi-precisious stones in the 14K metal.

Men often wear French cuffs with their suits . . . and cufflinks, of course.

@BirkiLady

Like a button-down shirt. They are callling a button-up shirt nowadays, a button-down but a button-down has buttons on the collar to hold it in place and a button-up is one that buttons up the front. Fashion vocabulary is often lacking on QVC.

Re: French Cuff

Nonametoday — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:38:43 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I'd love to have a crisp, white big shirt with true French cuffs in which I could use cuff links. You rarely see women's shirts like that. I've yet to find one.

@Kachina624

My husband and I together have a small jewelry box, like an earring box, sort of, full of cuff links. Nothing to use them on.

Re: French Cuff

Carolina925 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:48:02 GMT

As others have stated, this is not a French cuff shirt. I used to wear them when I was working, they would make quite a statement with the cuff links. I'm not a fashionista and don't follow current fashions but haven't seen a real French cuff shirt in years.

Re: French Cuff

Witchy Woman — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:37:04 GMT

@cheriere

Same here.

That's why, for many years, I've bought men's shirts with French cuffs. I rarely see anything other than white dress shirts, but I must have at least 10 in my closet.

I add beautiful cuff links and feel like a fashionista (I'm not).

I love them with dark jeans.

Re: French Cuff

Kachina624 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:38:30 GMT

@Nonametoday. @Carolina925

Maybe we all need to campaign one of the "designers" to make us a shirt with real French cuffs?

Who do we choose?

Re: French Cuff

Witchy Woman — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:39:01 GMT

@Kachina624

I just posted to @cheriere that I buy men's white French cuff shirts and have done so for years.

I'll normally get a 15" neck and 32" sleeves. The fit is generous, but I'm OK with that.

They look great with dark blue jeans.

Re: French Cuff

Kachina624 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:41:41 GMT

@Witchy Woman. That's a great idea if you have the figure for it. I'm so busty I can't see it would ever work.