Men aren't always good at matching items of clothing with accessories. Here are some tips to help the less colour-conscious among us!

First of all, it's hard to go wrong with a plain silver or silver-colour pair of cufflinks. Aside from gold shirts (which are not very common and probably not advisable anway!), there are very few colours which clash with silver. Of course, grey, charcoal, black and blues look particularly good with silver. Suggestion #1 - if in doubt, pick a pair of silver cuff links!

Gold coloured cuff links are not so flexible, but nearly. Fewer complexions are suited to wearing gold, though, so making the decision to wear gold coloured cuff links should be based more on what gold looks like against your skin.

Moving into coloured cuff links, especially enamelled cuff links - colours look good when they complement each other, either due to similarity, or contrast. One of the riskiest things to do is to marry up two mismatched shades of the same hue, like lime green with dark green. However, two shades of green CAN look great together. If it's not obvious to you at first glance, look critically at your choice and ask yourself whether there is any possibility of the two colours looking odd together to anyone else. Strangely enough, this can be quite helpful!

If you decide to go with contrasting colours, stick to pairings you KNOW go well together, like white and black. Red and green can look good together, but they can look terrible too.

Possibly the best advice we can give, without access to every reader's wardrobe, is to suggest that you play it safe in general, and have a low threshold for seeking advice from someone more stylistically-blessed if you're not absolutely certain of your choices.

Have fun!