Do you need cufflinks and studs for your shirt for a black tie event?

Invited to a black tie wedding. The shirt has normal buttons on it along with slots for cufflinks and studs. Can I just use the normal buttons or do I need to use cufflinks and studs.

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5 Responses to “Do you need cufflinks and studs for your shirt for a black tie event?”
  1. cwstuffff says:
    July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    you may use the normal buttons to any event.

    If you have favorite or expensive cuff links or studs you may use them instead

  2. sophisticatedly_morbid says:
    July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Just use the normal buttons
    Cufflinks look silly

  3. newyorkgal71 says:
    July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Cufflinks, of course. They make you look sophisticated, as if you are going to a Black Tie event, which you are. DUH! No, of course not, do NOT use buttons, unless you are going to work.

  4. Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi says:
    July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Yes; especially with a bow tie, where the front buttons would be visible.

  5. Bromeliad says:
    July 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Generally speaking, if the event is formal enough to be called "Black Tie" then studs and links should be worn. They do not have to be expensive–in fact the plainer the classier.