How To Dress Sharp... Even If You're FAT (21 Large Guy Style Tips)
[0:00:00] If you’re a big guy, you’ve got a choice
when you get dressed. Are you going to be fat and sloppy or large and in charge?
If your choice is the latter, this video is for you. I’m laying out over twenty rules
to help the heavy set man look amazing. First up, get a little bit angry and say no
to being sloppy. You want to go to the opposite end. You want to level up your style. You
don’t want to give anyone an excuse to judge you for your size.
A lot of people they do it all the time. They look at someone that’s overweight and they
say, oh, that person, he could fix that if he actually just watch what he put into his
mouth, if he went to the gym and exercise. You know that it’s a lot more difficult
than that and, you are still trying to be the best person you can be, so you control
that image. There is a villain I love, the Kingpin. Look
at the way the guy dresses. Yeah, no one goes up the Kingpin and says, oh, you’ve had
too many brownies, because if they say that, he’s going to crush them. He leverages his
size actually to his advantage. So, when he walks into a room, he commands respect. Say
no to sloppy. Don’t ever look like you’ve given up on life, so pay attention to those
small details. Have the courage to be the best-dressed man in the room.
Now, most guys they don’t want to stand out. If you’re about 50 lbs, 100 lbs overweight,
yeah, you don’t want to stand out, you don’t want to be looked at, you don’t want to
be snickered at. But, here is the thing, when you are confident when you’ve got the courage
to be the best-dressed man in the room, all of a sudden, yeah, some people are going to
snicker at your way, but most people are going to look at, hey, what is this guy bringing
to the table. They’re going to get past is very quickly when they see that you actually
have a lot to offer. Next up, let’s talk confidence. A lot of
big guys have lost a bit of confidence. Maybe they played football, but they gained a lot
of weight since their playing days. Okay. Well, let’s look past that, let’s look
what you have to offer. You are great with numbers. This is something
that you really know as you’re getting up to give that presentation. Focus in on what
you can control. So, think about what you’re good at. Everyone has something that they
are strong at, something they’re good at and focus in on that to build up your confidence.
Next up, you need to practice dressing sharp. You don’t wake up one morning all of a sudden
start wearing nice clothing because if you do that first day you’re wearing a costume.
You’re going to make a lot of mistakes and you’ve got to accept that. So, you want
to go through that transition period in which you practice dressing sharp.
Maybe you slowly start to bring and upgrade your shoes, maybe start to wear a suit, a
casual suit. Maybe you just want to go for a sports jacket, maybe a leather jacket. All
of a sudden, you get better. You go out there and you learn a bit more and step by step,
you improve. Level up your uniform. Your uniform is the
clothing you default to every morning when you wake up. So, think about what’s the
message you want to send to the world. Are you a consultant? Are you a lawyer? Are you
a master plumber? Understand, that you could have a uniform would send the signal of, hey,
I got twenty years experience in this profession and this is what I do. So, you’ve got a
uniform if it’s your own business. Or maybe it’s something, again, if you’re
in the professional field that you start to wear a jacket. Yeah, everyone else is getting
away with shirts, they’re working from home, but you realize you know when I meet people
at the office I want to put my best foot forward. So, level up the clothing that you default
and all of a sudden people are going to notice. Understand fit and get all of your clothing
to fit you. You need to know the name of your tailor. But, that first thing I started with,
understanding fit. It’s something that a lot of guys don’t actually understand what
clothing actually fits them. Most big guys, guess what? They buy clothing
that’s way too large because it has to fit a certain part of their body and then they
compromise in other places. So, yeah, they find a pair of jeans that could fit them in
the thighs and you know it’s still a little bit big in the waist area, but they just singed
it down with a belt. The problem with wearing trousers like this
is that they are disproportional and they don’t fit you on so many areas. So, you
want to take it and you want to get that clothing adjusted to fit you. And, a specific fit issue,
get your trousers hemmed. Get your jeans hemmed. Again, so many guys buy jeans that are oversize
and they’re a little bit long and they say, oh, I’m not going to worry about it and
you get that fraying in the back. Guys, it’s a bad look. Get them adjusted to fit you better.
Size down. So many large guys, again, they actually aren’t going out there and trying
different types of clothing. They put on that extra, extra large shirt and they say, oh,
you know it fits me. But, it’s still actually too big. You could just wear a large or maybe
an extra large or maybe you want to actually try new brand that actually make something
that’s going to better suit your body type. So, these next two points are for when you
dress sharp. You want to look for trousers that fit you at the natural waist and you
want to look at suspenders. If you get a pair of trousers and they fit you a bit higher.
The natural waist is going to be closer to your belly button.
Think about it. When you’re singeing down a belt, you’re actually trying to put pressure
in on something that actually is shaped like this and that’s why your pants are falling
down all the time. So, why don’t you solve this problem once and for all and start investing
in trousers that fit you better. Yes, you can even take trousers that fit a
bit lower and get suspenders that will hold those up, that actually works as well. But,
I really like it when you find trousers, again, that are made to go a little bit higher and,
again, the suspenders actually are going to use buttons on the inside of the trousers.
[0:04:55] And, I don’t think these needs to be said,
but I’m going to say it anyway, avoid skinny clothing. Skinny ties, skinny jeans, skinny
lapels, just say no. Now, why do you need to avoid skinny? That’s
a good question. And it’s all about proportion. So, when we look at a large man, how do we
tell someone is a giant from a distance? It’s actually the proportion of their head to their
body. The same thing when we see a guy that’s incredibly small because that man’s head
in proportion to his body is actually larger. So, you want to make sure that you’re always
thinking about proportions. Whenever you’re going to buy a shirt, you
want to look at that collar. Does that collar seem small? When you look at the small size
and you look at the extra large size, are they actually using about the same size collar?
That’s a bad sign and that’s why I recommend most large guys are going to be served best
when they go for custom clothing when it comes to their shirts, when it comes to their suits
because they can make the lapels, they can make the pockets, they can make everything
just a bit more proportion to your size. Now, understand that if you can’t afford
this, then definitely you’re going to want to go find brands that work for you. And that’s
the next thing is you want to be able to find brands find stores, two points right there,
that actually work well with larger men. And, if you guys have some stores or brands
that you recommend, let me know down in the comments. I want to hear from you guys. But,
you want to find brands that actually are built to your body type. I prefer you actually
go and support your local menswear store. A lot of these guys are very knowledgeable.
They see about a hundred guys every single day who come in and have issues and they’ve
got to solve these issues try the clothing on.
And, again, that’s a big point I hit on is try on clothing because you never know,
hey, actually this fits and this looks great on me. I never would have considered maybe
you know a sweater, you know a cardigan like this. I think it actually can look great on
a larger guy. And, let’s talk about your silhouette. Your
silhouette is not the fit, it’s actually closely related to proportions and this is
the profile that you cut from a background. So, what you want to do is you want it to
be taller, you want it to be leaner. How can you do this? What are the particular items
that you can bring in? So, let’s get into that.
One, hat. Yes, not many guys wear hats nowadays, but a larger man wearing a hat is going to
be perceived as taller. And, let’s also talk about your feet. Boots, shoes with heels,
you want to bring this in. Again, we’re trying to increase the height of the overall
silhouette. Now, I’ve talked about jackets, but you
know sports jackets I do think look great on guys going with casual suits. But, let’s
talk about other jackets that you can bring in. Cardigan is tech – it’s not technically
a jacket, but I think, again, it can create a better looking profile. You can also bring
in leather jacket, you can bring in jean jackets. All of these are going to go beyond the waistline.
And now, let’s talk about actually color – you know the colors and stuff like that.
You’ve got contrast and then you’ve got monochromatic. So, monochromatic is when our
top and our bottom basically are trousers and our top actually matched in color. They
don’t have to exactly match. You could go maybe with a pair of black trousers
with a gray jacket. You could go with a blue jacket with a dark tan pair of trousers. Right
there, you’ve actually got a pretty streamlined look even though the colors aren’t exactly
overall monochromatic. Then, you’ve got the opposite which is the
high contrast. And this is what you want to be careful of because if you’re wearing
that white shirt with black pants and you’ve got that belt that cuts you right there, all
of a sudden, where are we being drawn to? Where the colors meet.
And this is where so many big guys mess this up because we’re being drawn our eyes right
to your waist. Instead, throw a jacket on that combination. You want to find a way to
allow the eyes to go up and down with the color.
So, two other areas that the big man can get a huge win, the hair on his head and the hair
on his face. Both of these you want to make sure you’ve got impeccable grooming standards.
Why? You don’t want to give people any excuse to think that you’re sloppy. So you want
to be careful with the beard, be careful with that hair.
Twice a month, you want to be going in to see the barber. At the minimum, maybe every
three weeks. So, schedule it, go in, see your barber, tip him well, and make sure that he’s
taking good care and giving you a style that actually maybe has a bit of volume on it.
Why? Because all of a sudden it’s going to make the head look a little bit larger.
Your head in proportion to your body can actually – usually stand to be a little bit larger.
Now, what if you shave the head? What if you don’t have any hair up here? Let’s pay
attention to that facial hair because you can grow a beard and, again, elongate the
face, make the head overall look better. And, I see so many men pulling off and looking
great with beards. One of the things they cover up as well is the double chin. So, if
you’ve got a little bit of fat in and around the neck, make sure and grow that beard, just
looks really good. Now, if you watch today’s video and you’re
not a big guy, well, thank you very much. And I know that you still got some awesome
tips. Well, guess what, guys? I’ve got you covered with this video right here, how to
dress for any body type. So, you are tall and thin, you are regular
size, but really muscular, you are small and round, guess what? I’ve got you covered
with this video right here, how to dress for any body type. Go check it out, guys. I will
link to it as well down in the description. [0:09:51] End of audio