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Summary: French cuffs flip up and clip together and can be made in fashion to contrast with the rest of the shirt. Learn how to draw French cuffs for fashion design from a pro designer in this free fashion illustration video.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"The next cuff style is a very basic one. Everybody knows what a French cuff is. A French cuff is a cuff that is going to flip up and be clipped together. This isn't a button it's a clip, it's a cuff link, oh I can't think of the word it's a cuff link. A French cuff if you were to unroll this it wouldn't, that's the whole line right here. A French cuff is twice the length of the cuff when it is stretched out and right here to be a French cuff and show in fact that this is not a button I could have done a V, that's somebody's last name and they are wearing a bold V cuff link. But what shows that it is a cuff link in its universal drawing is this little bitty right angle right here. That means that there is a back, you can see part of the back from the front but it is not connected together, what connects its cuff link."
eHow Article: Fashion Design for French Cuffs