Traveling Man Style Tip - Always Carry An Emergency Sewing Kit - Men's Fashion Advice
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I've got a tip for the traveling man.
Always carry an emergency sewing kit.
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Okay, the traveling sewing kit, something that you've maybe heard of, but you've never
seen.
Well, stop everything.
If you are traveling right now, if you are on the road, if you are near a fine hotel,
if you're near an average hotel, why don't you just go ask the person working the desk
and ask them nicely, say, "Hey, do you have an emergency traveling sewing kit I may have,
please?"
Lo and behold, they're probably going to give you something like this.
These are awesome.
These are life-savers and I'll just give you a quick story.
I was traveling throughout Chicago going to a conference when I first started my company,
and it was pretty embarrassing, but as a custom clothier, I had a shirt that was one of my
favorites, but I had not worn a tie with it for a year.
I go to button that the morning of the conference and I drove probably four and a half hours
to get there, so it was early when I left.
Now, I didn’t put the tie one when I left and my shirt collar had shrunk.
I don't know how it happened, but yes, my shirt collar shrunk.
That's all we're going to say.
Needless to say, it was like by half an inch and I just needed to move -- I knew I needed
to just move that button and I would get something that would work for the day or take a safety
pin and put it together.
You can find ways to rig this up here, but in any case, I was thinking like, "Okay, what
can I do?
What are my steps going to be?"
I realized this conference is in a hotel.
I went down to the bottom of the hotel.
I asked the people working at the desk nicely and lo and behold, they actually gave me this
sewing kit right here.
There are a lot of them.
I think Gilchrist & Soames, they make a lot of these, so there's a good chance you could
have a Gilchrist & Soames.
I don't know a whole lot about the company.
I think it's just a fancy-sounding name, but in any case, they gave me one just like this.
I went into the bathroom and just cut off the -- I asked for a pair of scissors as well
-- and simply cut it, re-sewed it, moved it over just a bit, and lo and behold.
The rest of the day, it worked like a charm.
So little emergencies like that, when you get a little tear on the seam, anything you
could think of, you lose a button, many, many fixes can be fixed because what you're going
to find in this emergency sewing kit is usually a number of types of thread, probably three
to six needles, two to four buttons, and a safety pin, and really that's all you need
to release the inner MacGyver when it comes to clothing.
This can fix a lot more than clothing.
I'll just leave it up to your imagination, but there are many things that any time it
tears or breaks, that having an emergency sewing kit is going to save the day.
And again, you don't have to be staying in that hotel.
They've got these things lying around.
I'm not saying that every time you go by a hotel, you'll stop and just grab one, although
maybe I am saying that.
It would probably be a good idea, but in any case, every time I travel now, I make sure
to grab one.
I've fairly got 10 to 15 of them lying around.
And so, I always have one hidden in my luggage whenever I'm flying.
I have one in each of my vehicles.
You would be surprised.
Actually, we used one at my brother's wedding down in Nashville, Tennessee.
We had a 30-minute drive out to the wedding and one of the groomsmen, his suit was rented
and it was just so big on him.
It was just the wrong size, and my wife took it right there and with the emergency sewing
kit made the adjustments on the suit.
She shortened the sleeve length by a good inch and a half.
She opened up the jacket and brought it in with an emergency sewing kit.
My wife is not a seamstress, but she's good with needle and thread.
She probably could be one.
It just goes to show that human beings, we can figure things out.
Don't underestimate yourself and get that emergency sewing kit.
Okay.
This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.