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French cuff or double cuff (primarily British) is a cuff
on a dress shirt that is folded back and then closed with
cuff links or silk knots, instead of buttons. Cuff links
and silk knots exist solely for shirts with French cuffs.
French
cuffs are considered to be more formal than button cuffs.
Although more formal, French cuffs are 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.
Alternatively,
instead of cuff links, French cuffs can also be closed with
the much less expensive, but just as formal and well-regarded,
silk knots, sometimes called monkey's fists. Silk knots
tend to be better known in Europe than in the United States.
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