Q&A for How to Put On Cufflinks

Choose cufflinks based on your personality or interests. For example, you can get cufflinks with dogs on them if you're a dog lover.

You certainly can, but fashion standards say not to. Cufflinks are usually for more formal settings and should be worn with a suit or tux.

Typically, no, since there would be no facing (bottom side) hole or holes to receive the link fastening part. A good seamstress could, however, remove the button and create a buttonhole in its place if (and only if) the cuff were long enough to accommodate the shirt wearer's wrist with the cuff ends overlapped for insertion of the cuff link. For the typical shirt wearer of casual, not formal, dress wearer, the more practical solution for lost buttons would be to obtain and sew on replacement buttons as needed, or to purchase a new shirt.

They can we worn either way, as people looking at the cufflinks won't be able to tell. Generally speaking, only you will know which way you put the cufflinks in.

Your cuff should have have slits where buttons normally would be; If it has buttons, you need a different, cuff link-friendly shirt.