For those of you that may not know, a cufflink is a decorative "button" worn to fasten the two sides of the cuff on a dress shirt.
Before cufflinks, people tied together with their cuffs with "cuff strings." Seriously, they did.
During the reign of Louis XIV that shirt sleeves started to be fastened with boutons de manchette, or "sleeve buttons," usually pairs of colored glass buttons joined
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