tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546240319191736849.post6239534917635970363..comments2023-08-11T22:51:59.107+10:00Comments on Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Regency Gentleman's ShirtsAylwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12522598956584641071noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546240319191736849.post-26503309422470865182011-05-19T12:31:39.017+10:002011-05-19T12:31:39.017+10:00Thanks Cecile, I need to look up my copy of Costum...Thanks Cecile, I need to look up my copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9780896762268/janeaustfest-20" rel="nofollow">Costume Close Up</a>. Its a wonderful book and one I use quite often. I've got pictures of cufflinks in portraits but not extant ones. Do you know of any antique ones on display anywhere that we can look at?Aylwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12522598956584641071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546240319191736849.post-3178388069825894342011-05-17T00:29:07.842+10:002011-05-17T00:29:07.842+10:00Just a short note: In this time it was not yet usu...Just a short note: In this time it was not yet usual to have dorset buttons on the cuffs. But it seems to be the late regencyrea when it changed ( see "Costume close-up" the cuffs of the shirt have been altered) It was more usual to close them with cufflinks, on paintings you can see that even poorer men had cufflinks, or if they could not afford they tied a ribbon through the two buttonholes.<br />If you add ruffles it is essential to have cufflinks because otherwise you can't have the ruffles go down the slitCécilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02009738211287483235noreply@blogger.com