- What's up, gentlemen?
I'm Ollie.
It's Make Me That Guy, and the subject of today's video
is how to style a black-on-black look.
So to mix up black garments and create an all-black style.
All right.
So, we're going to give you five major tips.
Tip number one.
Okay, so the key to successfully layering an all-black look
is to mix up the fabrics and textures, all right?
If you're wearing one fabric or one texture
throughout your whole look,
you're going to look a bit like the Grim Reaper.
There's going to be no distinction,
no grades in between the different garments,
and you're going to look like a big black blob
with a little face sticking out of the top.
You don't want that.
It's not about being the Grim Reaper.
Or you may even look like a goth.
No offense to all you goths out there.
You suck a bit, but no offense, no offense.
So, of course, I'm kidding, right,
but what I'm getting at is by mixing up the fabrics
and the textures, we make a sort of distinction
between the different garments.
They don't all blend in too much, all right?
So thus, I'm going to go through my look in a bit.
We've got this kind of shell suit-y bomber jacket on top
with the shiny material,
and underneath, we've got one fabric,
and another fabric on the t-shirt.
Black denim.
It's all different fabrics with different textures,
which gives a sort of graduation in the grade
between the different black colors.
We don't want it all to blend into one big, black mask.
It's not separated up enough,
and you can't see the different elements of your style.
So first tip is different fabrics
and different textures combined really help
to separate out the different elements of the look,
make it more distinctive and cooler.
And we're going to go through this look in a minute
to show you what I've done for our urban
black-on-black look, which I'm rocking today.
All right.
Tip number two.
If you're doing to buy t-shirts,
or hoodies,
make sure they're not super cheap.
The minute you wash them,
they're going to fade if they're very cheap.
Why not chuck an extra 10 bucks at a t-shirt,
an extra 10 bucks for your hoodie,
and you're going to get something slightly more quality.
If you go for the most obvious high street brands,
they may look great the first time you wear 'em.
I guarantee that t-shirt is going to fade.
It's going to look rubbish.
And especially in the context of a black jacket,
which isn't gonna fade.
It's gonna stay really, really crisp.
It's gonna look gray and faded and washed,
and you're going to look like a guy who wears
gray, faded washed old-ass t-shirts, not cool.
So spend a little bit more money on stuff like hoodies,
t-shirts, stuff which can shrink and can fade,
and it's going to keep that crisp element
to your black-on-black-on-black style.
Tip number three.
When you are wearing all black like I am,
you need something to separate it up.
We've already gone through the different color grades
to sort of, you know, make the different garments distinct
and give it more of a style rather than an overall blob,
but the best way to do so is to accessorize heavily.
Lots of jewelry.
Let's get this shit blinging.
So look what I'm wearing today.
I've got a black and silver watch.
I've got a black and silver bracelet.
I've got two silver rings.
I've got a silver chain.
Even the zips are silver.
So I find that silver especially looks wicked with black.
Always works really well together,
and it's gonna help to separate out the look
and make sure it stands out more,
and it works perfectly with a rock n' roll style as well,
and we're going to show you a few examples of that
at the end of the video.
So accessorize heavily.
I've even got a silver earing with two little crosses,
and guess what?
One of the crosses is silver, and one is black.
All right, so you might wanna zoom in on that earring.
There we go.
So that is my black and silver style.
So, heavy accessories to help set off the look,
break it up a little bit, and make it stand out more,
because black is very dark.
That's gonna give it a bit of shine,
right, a bit of swagger.
Okay, so accessorize heavily.
All right, boys, point number four is multiple layering.
I talked about layering anyway,
and layering can just be a t-shirt underneath a jacket
with a hoodie, like what I'm wearing right now,
but we're gonna pop up an example right now
with some really nice layering going on.
Okay, so here, we see Tinie Tempah the UK rapper
totally repping the black-on-black-on-black look.
And that's what I'm talking about,
all these multiple layers, yeah?
And you can see the textures as well.
He's got the thick kind of wooly overcoat going on there,
the long coat, and he's got some kind
of a weird ninja waistcoat-looking thing
in a lighter black,
and then underneath, he's got a black polo neck,
and black trousers, black sunglasses.
He's even got a black beard, funny enough.
All right, so that is a really good example
of how we're going to layer it and mix up the textures.
That's Tinie Tempah, stylish man, UK rapper,
as a good example of the layering.
All right, what else have we got here?
We have this chap here, another really cool, urban look.
A bit similar to mine, actually.
We've got skinny jeans, ripped up again.
High-top plimsolls I think we've got going on there.
I think they're Balenciaga.
We've got this guy who's had his head cut off, poor bloke,
but he's got this classic black rock n' roll leather jacket.
He's got the long-line t-shirt, super ripped up jeans,
a pair of high tops on,
all combined with a bit of silver jewelry.
Nice example of some black-on-black-on-black layering.
He's even got two t-shirts on.
So, as that picture shows,
all those different layers of black, as I mentioned,
really helps to give more of a look,
and the black-on-black-on-black, different layers,
different textures all over the place, it really works.
As the black is so dark,
you can get away with loads of layers.
If I had seven layers on, and they were red, yellow, green,
I would look like a complete idiot.
It'd make me look huge as well,
but black is very slimming.
So it kind of makes you look like some kind of legendary
Lord of the Rings character with scarves and jacket
and different textures of black and it's very cool.
Anyway.
So, as you can see in that picture,
all these layers, it really works when it's all black,
all right, different textures, different grades of black,
different darknesses,
and you can get away with loads of layers in black.
Yes, each garment is obviously
a different one from the next,
but it all blends in together.
If I had yellow on red on pink on purple,
I'd look like a rainbow, or at best, an idiot,
and it would make me look huge.
But the black is very slimming,
and the layers work to blend in together,
and you get some overall look of a kind of like,
traveling warrior bohemian legendary style,
if that makes sense,
and if we can find the popup to suit what I just said.
All right, cool.
So that was my idea there.
Lots of layering.
Lots of different layers.
As I said, textures, colors, and grades.
It's gonna really work.
Our fifth and final point
on how to style a black-on-black look
is be aware when to wear black-on-black-on-black.
If it's summer,
and you wear black-on-black-on-black-on-black,
you're going to look like a twat-twat-twat-twat-twat.
I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it.
(crowd boos)
It's not funny, it's not funny.
I can't...
Sorry, sorry, forgive me.
All right, so, if you wear that in the summer,
the point is that you're going to look a bit silly.
It's going to be boiling hot.
It's going to be too many layers.
The black is just gonna make you stick out in the sun.
Same if you're going somewhere really small.
Wearing all black with loads of mad layers on
is not really suitable to go for a club.
It's very much a sort of street day wear,
and I think it suits winter the best,
although of course you can go
for a more low-key black look in the summer.
So be aware.
You know, you're not really going to go to a wedding
in a black-on-black-on-black outfit.
Maybe a funeral, not wedding.
All right, remember that.
So, that was it, gentlemen.
That was the five tips.
Let's have a little look at what I'm wearing
before we end this video.
Ding, and magically, a black hat has appeared on my head.
I don't know where that came from.
It just appeared.
All right.
So anyway, guys, I've put on the cap as well.
It's an urban look,
so I'm wearing the old-school Nike hat backwards,
and again, I like the tag sticking out,
and we've got the little silver fastening there.
Silver and black, as I've already said.
This is our urban black look we've chosen today.
Let's zoom down a little bit.
All right, we've got the t-shirt.
It's a good quality t-shirt, as I said.
It won't fade too much.
That is one texture of black material.
We've then got the black and silver.
We're got a bit of white on it,
but, you know, we couldn't find a plain black one,
so just deal with it, all right.
Give us a bloody break.
Give us a break.
So we've got the black hoodie,
the silver zips underneath.
Nice graduation between the fabrics.
And then we've got this awesome old-school mini
shiny bomber on top.
Fucking love that.
So that is really a massive distinction there,
the shiny material to the t-shirt material.
Nice graduation between the colors.
As I've already showed you earlier,
we've got our black and silver jewelry.
Probably the best bit to look at.
Silver chain.
Then we're gonna zoom down.
Plain jet black...
Plain Jack?
Who the hell is Jack?
All right.
Not Jack Black.
Black.
Plain black jeans.
Kind of skinny.
Yet another graduation in fabrics.
Denim obviously is a bit different.
Okay, and then finally, we have our little classic
Nike high-top Blazers these are called,
and again, of course, they're black leather
with a kind of, you know, texture to them as well.
Not quite sure what you call that texture,
but you get the idea, all right.
So there's the Nike high tops.
Okay, gentlemen, that was black-on-black fashion,
how to layer black garments.
Hope you liked the video.
Be sure to try the styles we just showed you
and all the tips we gave you.
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