There’s a certain type of man that wears cufflinks. Don Draper, for example, wears cufflinks. But he’s also a fictional character set in the 1960s. In the real world, these days, it’s usually the well-off that wear them. Basically, you need to have enough money to not care about spending hundreds of dollars on buttons.
But CuffLinks.com appears to be going for a new crowd with its latest design. The “Facebook Me” cufflinks are $50 and feature yes, the Facebook logo on them. They are approximately 3/4″ by 3/4,” are “Rhodium plated,” and feature a “Bullet back closure.” One cufflink features the Facebook “f,” the other reads “me.” Classy.
Facebook has well over 300 million users now, but I’m just not sure how much overlap there is with the cufflink crowd. Much of that crowd seem to prefer monogrammed cufflinks, so perhaps it would have been a better idea to engrave Facebook vanity names or profiles pictures in these bad boys.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also famously doesn’t like to dress up. But he has traded his North Face/flip flop uniform for a tie with jeans. He could well be on his way to cufflink status.
Again, let me just clearly point out again that these cufflinks very clearly spell out “f me.” If the presence of Facebook cufflinks wasn’t going to ruin your chances of meeting that someone special this weekend, this likely will.
“Basically, you need to have enough money to not care about spending hundreds of dollars on buttons.” HA.
Your changes of meeting someone special are ruined indeed. By your prescense.
I can’t stop myself.
Your chances of meeting someone special are ruined by bad spelling.
Fixed! My Techcrunch, you are fast and attentive.
we write fast and edit faster
I ll F You with my yahoo
I’m almost positive that this story was just a reason to get a picture of Don Draper on TechCrunch. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
+1
i’ll just leave this here for the both of you
http://thelastp...draper_you.html
that is seriously a great blog post, one of the best i’ve read in a while, someone linked me to it a while, but meaning to link to it on my personal blog.
i appreciate the picture with the red circle pointing out the cuff links. lol
so that’s where the cufflinks go.
i do what i can.
I wear french cuffs often enough to have 3 or 4 pairs of cufflinks. But no, no facebook links for me, maybe if I had a younger sense of irony. I prefer tiny hourglass cufflinks with real sand.
oooh nice.
you should buy 2 pairs and wear just “me me”
I am the kind of guy who wears cufflinks. Typically Monday – Friday at work, and the rare occasions I go out for a nice dinner or event.
Regarding the Facebook overlap, I suspended my account quite some time ago (since apparently you can’t “delete” it outright).
And while this is coming from a place of personal aesthetic, these are so un-believably tacky you wouldn’t even catch me dead wearing them.
So who are these targeting? Probably the extremely small niche of french-cuff wearing Facebook junior execs and their silicon valley peers.
The rest of us dress with the lights *on*.
You actually can delete your Facebook profile outright, they just purposely make you jump through hoops to do so.
http://www.face...=delete_account
That should help
I now know what this week’s techcrunch friday giveaway will be. http://www.tech...06/twitterpeek/
perfect.
Thanks for the tip I’ll be careful not to wear cuff links and draw ire of keffiyeh wearing San Franciscan bobos.
I wonder if there’s a particular reason the Facebook icon “f” character is aligned to the right. They could also add an optional bonus third “u” cufflink.
I’m thinking tie tack.
F me, IN!!
Seriously, you TC guys need to get out more. And get out more beyond TechCrunch land. Cufflinks are very common, for example, in most of Europe, and silly comments (or attempts at being witty) like “In the real world, these days, it’s usually the well-off that wear them” are embarrassingly parochial and provincial.
Sounds like you guys live in a college dorm.
a frat house, actually.
I wear cufflinks when I wear buttoned shirts and I inherited one pair from my dad and the other I bought in London years ago for 7£ at H&M. They’re not pricey and neither are proper French cut shirts if you shop around. I mean, if you’re going to properly wear a shirt, wear one, otherwise go with a tee. Don’t be part of the blue shirt khaki pants crowd.
“Basically, you need to have enough money to not care about spending hundreds of dollars on buttons.”
I can’t figure out what this is supposed to mean. Some people, who have lots of money and don’t care, nonetheless are bummed about spending hundreds of dollars on buttons? And this prompts them to switch to cufflinks?
How many buttons can you get for $100?
*head asplodes*
asplodes huh
Great models, do they also ship abroad?
F Me. Hmm. I don’t get it.
you’re not a d-bag, that’s why.
That’s nice to know. Happy hour drinks on me at Pink Taco today!
ha.
Ever buy a shirt at Banana Republic or something, get it home only to realize that it’s got French cuffs?
I f-ing hate that.
yeah, i just use a paperclip.
hahaha, classy.
“Holy shit, you’re dating finger cuffs?!?”
Cufflinks and heavy shirts and nice thick ties I understand.
Open neck button down shirts I understand.
But what gives with the really weird combo of cufflinks and open neck shirt????
I see it everywhere.
Very strange.
Cufflinks are COOL!
CuffLinks.com is THE BEST SITE found to buy almost any type of cufflinks. They have the NBA, NFL and MLB – but the F ME cufflinks are just too cool. Sign me up! Way to go CuffLinks.com
By the way, I notice young guys that want to look good for the ladies wear CuffLinks.com without a jacket. Try it! It’s amazing what an opener it is for the ladies when going out. I have bought over 20+ pairs of cufflinks from cufflinks.com GREAT GREAT SITE. I like their iphone cufflinks.
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Not cufflinks I would wear to a formal event, to be certain.
But for kitsch at a more casual cocktail party? Hell yes I would.
Thanks for turning me on to cufflinks.com. Just what I was needing to find as Christmas approaches.
How long before Facebook’s lawyers are all over this one? Trademark dilution, anyone? I have a feeling that a Yahoo! store might not have the appropriate license to use Facebook’s trademark/trade dress.
i still like my solar shirts better…
http://www.prin...hirt/_p_4452484
http://www.prin...hirt/_p_4482124
-scott
If TechCrunch buys me a pair ill wear these to my formal in a couple of weeks
So they can’t make a red cent out of the actual site itself, so the make merchandise related to the site. Clever boys. Much like that movie bloke back in the 70’s with that funny gold robot and them swords that light up.
Zuckerberg doll anyone?
Oh yeah, I like that idea. Much much classier than a T-shirt saying… what ever T-shirts are saying these days.
I’m wearing Cufflinks all the time but for sure Dunhill and noway in a hill to wear this one it’s look so cheap ..