Hi.
I’m Antonio Centeno.
I’m the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, gentlemen I’ve got a question for you.
Should a man wear a bracelet or bracelets?
Go ahead and let me know down the comments below.
I would love to hear from you guys what your opinion is.
Now, I’m going to give you five reasons why you should consider wearing a bracelet
especially if you’re a man that doesn’t and I’m in that camp.
So, on a daily basis I do not wear bracelets.
I grew up conservative West Texas where you do not wear a bracelet, otherwise, yeah, you’re
just going to – people are just going to look at you just very, very strange.
But, over the last twenty years, I’ve had the privilege to travel the world to be able
to see some amazing things and I’ve developed friendships with men that are running amazing
companies.
And one of them, Hamed over at Helix Cuffs and Carlos over at the Collaterals.
These two guys, two amazing companies and they both make bracelets and they approached
me and say, Antonio, like you should – you should look at this you should try it, look
at what we’re – and I see these guys very amazing companies, they’re taking two very
different approaches.
Let me show you, this is what Carlos has over at the Collaterals and this can actually be
worn.
I’ve seen pictures of men with suits wearing this and, I’ll talk about how they’re
doing that.
And then, Hamed and his partner, they’ve been building this in Colorado hand-made.
But, the point is is I normally wouldn’t wear bracelets.
I wouldn’t have considered them.
And these five points I’m about to share with you hopefully they get you thinking about
it and I love for us to have a constructive, you know, conversation about this down the
comments.
And if you decide to purchase from those companies, go check out on the comments, I’m going
to give you guys some discount codes so that you can get a great deal when you decide or
if you decide to start wearing a bracelet.
All right?
So, number one reason why maybe you would want to consider start wearing – to start
to wear a bracelet is it’s a great conversation starter.
I find that conversation is something of a lost art and part of it is getting it started.
We pass people all the time, we, you know, everyone almost looks the same, but if you’re
wearing a bracelet especially in an occasion, maybe it’s formal and you’ve got something
just attracts a bit of attention.
And, not necessarily in a bad way or maybe you’re on the beach and you don’t really
have much else in style, you don’t want to wear a watch, and this is something that
allows you to talk and to be open with another person and to who knows where this could go.
It could be start of a beautiful relationship, maybe it’s that woman that you’ve wanted
to be engaged with and she just asked you, where did you get that from?
And you’re able to tell her about your appreciation for, you know, artistry and, you know, hand-made
things or it’s a business acquaintance.
And it’s almost like, wow, you know, I know you – I knew you were a creative person,
but – and you’re in the jewelry, but please tell me more about this.
So, who knows where it can go, but I love the idea that it starts a conversation.
Point number two, it’s practical.
Maybe, and some of you guys may say, oh, Antonio, how is it practical?
Let’s look at ID bracelets, let’s look at health bracelets, let’s look at the paracord
bracelet.
Yes, okay, that last one maybe a bit of a joke, but, hey, if you’re going off and
you’re getting – you’re jumping out of a C130 and into the woods of Alaska or
I don’t know, wherever you’re going, it may be something that, hey, just having that
paracord bracelet is useful.
But, for some men, it is a – it’s a practicality.
So, on to point number three, wealth and status.
So, it has been shown, when people look at others with jewelry, there’s an instant
trigger in the back of their mind that this person has a bit of money.
And, maybe we don’t see it in North America so much, but I know I travel over to East
Europe, I’m going to see a lot of more jewelry in the part of the world.
I’m going to see jewelry and gold over in China and other parts of India is a clear
sign that this person is well.
So, yeah, we’ve tried to push down that there aren’t class and divisions of people,
but in other parts of the world, it isn’t always that clear.
And even here in the United States, when we see someone driving a BMW, we see somebody
driving a, you know, a Mercedes, we have something, oh, that person has to be pretty successful.
When we see them or, you know, they’re living off credit card debt, but in any case, you
don’t have that when you’re walking into Starbucks and you’re talking to somebody,
but if we see that they wear a little bit of jewelry, oftentimes you could be something,
hmm, this person is a little bit different.
So, let’s get into point number four, special meaning and perhaps signifying your culture.
So, I was talking about and we’ve seen some of the bead bracelets out there, perhaps that’s
something that comes out of your culture.
Now, Hamed I don’t actually know so much about his background, but it may – I know
for him wearing jewelry was something that was bit more common.
And where – wherever you’re from the world whether it’d be the Middle East whether
it’d be Northern Africa, maybe it’s parts of India maybe jewelry wearing and bracelets
are a part of your culture and you want to bring that into your normal dress.
Point number five, you actually like it.
Now, there was a gentleman that actually came out to our Style Con event, he purchased a
bracelet from Hamed and I saw him leave -- Mike, you know who you are and he left a comment.
And this is a – this a marine veteran and he say he just loves the bracelet how it reminds
him of something, so it has meaning.
But, how he just started to love actually the attention he got and how he felt wearing
it and so, he wears it now with pride and people come up and start to talk to him about
the bracelet.
So, he wears it because he likes it.
Guys, what do you think of those five points and I would love to hear from you in the comments
about the two companies that I talked about about wearing bracelets in general.
Take care.
See you in the next video.
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