3 Tips To Dress Taller Style Advice For Short Men
[0:00:00] Antonio: I get it, gents.
You’re 5’5”, 5’6”, 5’2”, you want to dress taller.
And it’s not just that, you want to be able to walk into a store and find clothing that
fits your body type.
How to do this?
In today’s video, gents, three tips so that you can dress taller.
[Music] All right, gentlemen, are you ready?
Tip number one.
Brock: Whoa!
Antonio.
Listen, I love you man, no disrespect, but what are you like 5’9”?
5’10”?
I don’t think you fully understand and appreciate the struggle that it is to dress well as a
shorter man.
I, on the other hand, I’m 5’6” in shoes, okay?
So, I’m intimately familiar with how hard it is to find clothes that fit and flatter
the man of modest height is this subtle little things that are going to maximize your perceived
height or at the very least avoid making you look, you know, shorter than you really are
or making you look like, you know, a little kid.
So, I want to share three very quick and dirty tips, things that you can start to doing today
to not only dress well, but also actually maximize your perceived height.
I remember at the end of the day, it’s not about dressing taller, it’s about feeling
comfortable in your own skin, but why not put your best foot forward in terms of appearance.
So, tip number one and I know you’ve heard this a million times, you got to make sure
your clothes fit well.
For most guys, this simply means sizing down.
I mean I see a lot of shorter guys out there wearing size medium shirts when they’d look
a lot better in a small or even in extra small.
But, even if you size down, the fact of the matter is that most major clothing brands
don’t actually make clothes for men under 5’8”.
So, the answer of course is to get your clothes tailored.
If you don’t have a good tailor, if you don’t take your clothes to the tailor regularly,
that is the number one thing you can do right now to improve your appearance.
If you start getting your clothes tailored regularly, you’re going to look better than
90% of men out there regardless of height.
The most common alterations I see that shorter men need are first of all getting your pants
hemmed, getting your sleeves shortened on done button-up shirts and jackets, getting
your pants tapered, so getting the leg opening narrowed down, and then also getting your
shirt taken in.
That’s more for the slimmer skinny guys out there.
But seriously, if you’ve never done it, I urge you after watching this video today,
just take one pair of pants from your closet that needs to be shortened and maybe tapered,
take it to the tailor and just see what happens.
Trust me, you’re going to be hooked.
Now, if you’re a smaller guy, you want to keep your accessories smaller too because
you want them to look proportionate to your build.
So, for example, I’m going to wear a relatively slim ties and I’m going to tie them using
smaller knots.
So, my tie might be 2-1/2 to 2-3/4 inches wide at the widest point and I’m going to
use a four-in-hand or a double four-in-hand knot and that’s going to look proportional
to my build.
Okay.
Tip number two has to do with color.
Now, it doesn’t really matter which colors you like to wear, it’s more about how you
combine them.
So, for example if you’re wearing a white shirt and black pants, that creates this stark
horizontal contrast that cuts you in half visually.
It creates a top and a bottom half.
Visually, this does not do any favors for the shorter build.
So, instead what you want to do is minimize contrast by wearing clothes in the top and
bottom that are more closely related in terms of color.
So, instead of a white shirt and black pants, wear a gray shirt and navy blue pants.
I promise this makes a whole world of difference.
So, if you haven’t tried that, give it a shot.
You can still include contrast elsewhere on your outfit like you can wear a contrasting
pocket square or a tie or in the pattern of your shirt, but just avoid that horizontal
contrast that cuts you in half visually.
It tends to make you look shorter than you actually are.
Tip number three is to change where you shop.
So, there are handfuls of specialty brands out there that believe it or not make clothes
specifically for shorter men.
Now, I keep a running list on a page on my website that lists all of these different
brands.
Some of them are online, some of them are brick and mortar, some of them are both.
So, definitely check those out if you haven’t already.
The other option is to go custom.
So, this especially applies to like dress shirts and suiting and blazers.
All of the suits on my closet are made to measure.
And, once you go custom, you know, you can’t go back.
I mean it just fits so much better than anything off the rack.
So, whether you do full bespoke with a local tailor or if you go online made to measure,
I highly recommend giving custom a chance if you’ve been frustrated with what you’re
finding off the rack ready-to-wear.
Guys, if you have any questions, let me know I’ll be down there in the comments.
Antonio, back to you.
Antonio: All right, gents.
Now, go check out Brock’s channel.
I’m linking to ten of my favorite videos over at the Modest Man down in the description
of this video, guys.
Go check them out, great channel.
And if you’re 5’9”, 5’11”, you still want to dress a bit taller, his tips are going
to apply to you.
It’s not just for the short individual who is shorter than 5’9”, 5’8”.
Brock’s tips actually can be applied to anybody out there.
So, guys, go check it out, great channel, great guy.
` And, if you want to meet him, meet other people in person, consider coming out to Menfluential,
guys, February 23rd, 24th, Atlanta, Georgia.
I’m putting the links down to that conference down to that motivational event down in the
description as well.
Guys, I appreciate you, I appreciate what we built here at Real Men Real Style.
And, let me know in the comments what you think of videos like this, what you would
like to see, who you would like to see me do a collab with in the future.
Let me know, guys down in the comments.
Take care.
See you in ne – see you in the next video.
I almost forgot my famous lines, right?
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