Today, the Tie, Tomorrow, the Cufflink!
06/25/2005
Ties are cheap. We've seen moving guys and bike messengers all wearing them on the clock. It's getting to be like the 1855, when you had factories full of workingmen wearing ties while they tended furnaces and nailed shoes onto the hooves of horses and got their formalwear covered in soot and dung. What did guys do back then when a tie wasn't a sufficient formalizer? They wore cufflinks: big, bright and golden, like dabs of honey on their wrists. They wore them for the same reason that goodfellas like pinky rings, that the wristwatch has survived the cell phone, and that some graying male Philly lawyers fight back the February chill in full-length mink coats. All men secretly believe themselves to be ancient kings, draped in precious furs and stones. And yet they fear that other men will call them fairies if they act on these fantasies. So the jewelry needs some kind of excuse for being there. It needs a job to do, no matter how farfetched, such as holding a cuff together like a glorified button. Thus, the cufflink. We can count down the hours until its inevitable return.
Cuff Daddy
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