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When my uncle died, his widow gave me several pairs of his cuff links. I felt really cool when I was wearing them, but I can't recall the last time I had a shirt that took cuff links. I'm not sure if I have any of them.

I just finished reading Variable Star. This is a story outline from Robert Heinlein that was finished by Spider Robinson many years after Heinlein's death. Robinson was given a pair of cuff links that had belonged to Heinlein. He had a shirt altered and wore the cuff links while writing the book.

@Tony

I tried finding the cufflinks you mentioned. Couldn't find them. I found an article from 2004 that mentions the cufflinks, but doesn't describe them.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/reilly.html

"Similarly, sweet Amy sent me a set of her grandfather’s cufflinks to wear as I type VARIABLE STAR"

Any idea what the cufflinks looked like?

Some cool ones there.

@nonamesleft

Robinson tells the story in the book where he describes how the "collaboration" came about, but there is no picture nor does he describe them.

The ones I had were all metal. Some were a mesh wrap around like the leather ones above, and some were like knots. The only shirts that accepted them were high end dress shirts one would wear with a suit and tie.

creagan wrote:
:) Thanks.

Tony wrote:
Mesh wraparound cufflinks are pretty cool. Metal?

nonamesleft wrote:



Yes, metal mesh. I still have them and a few others, but I can't post pictures here because I don't use any online photo hosting. I just looked for images of metal mesh wrap around cufflinks and saw the prices for vintage cuff links. I might have to put these on eBay soon.

Another great fashion product from the boss of cool clothing. If I still owned a shirt that used these I’d grab up those dawgs and peppers. Thanks for offering them up.