Cuff

A collar is a fixed revised to closing by button and buttonhole or with push-through cufflinks cuff, worked as a cuff or cuffs. It is often like a shirt collar slightly stiffened, to shirts, blouses and shirt-like jackets. The cuff has in outerwear often no button device.

The following types are distinguished:

• Sports cuff (also Italian cuff): the single-layer fabric is connected with a button. It is the most common form and less formal than the cuff. Usually two locking knobs are arranged in series, so that the shirt collar can be buttoned down depending on the wrist circumference. More rarely, there are the sports cuff as a somewhat more elegant variant, with two buttons next to each other ( two-button cuff).

• Combined cuff (also Wiener cuff): Single layer cuff, which (also) can be closed with a cufflink. To Frack be worn as a special feature only shirts with combi cuff.

• Cuff (also Umlegemanschette, French cuff or double cuff): It consists of a double layer of fabric, which is thrown back to the wrist and optionally closed with a cufflink. This is the most elegant and most formal type of collar. Shirts tuxedo be worn only in this form.

The material ends of the sleeve may be rounded square or (more rarely). The shirt sleeve should extend to the base of the hand dorsum. The sleeves and the sleeves of jackets worn over ideally should be cut so that the shirt cuff poking out about a half to two inches from the jacket sleeve.

Depending on the fashion in addition to shirts and blouses, especially women's coats and jackets are equipped with cuffs. In particular, furs often have decorative cuff cuffs, also can be provided winter clothing with fur cuffs. If they are not firmly attached, they allow the wearer the sleeve length according to the undergarment to regulate.