What's up boys? It's Jose Zuniga from Teaching Men's Fashion and for today's
video we're gonna be going over 7 shirt tricks I think every guy should know.
These are little hacks you can do to revamp your shirts, make yourself look
more stylish, and overall better looking. Let's hop into it. Number one, fixing a
weak collar. Say you have an old shirt, it's probably five years old, the collars
flimsy, you don't even wear it anymore, well it's time to revamp it. You can
easily cut that weak collar off and turn this into a modern band collar shirt,
then you can now rock all the time. Basically you just want to lay it flat,
use a pair of scissors, and cut across the base of the collar. You can leave it
freight as is to give it more of a casual look or you can go in with
tweezers and remove the freight ends. Alright, but let's move to number two, let's
say the shirt is unsalvageable, it's dirty, or maybe it has a tear, you're
about to throw it away, you don't need it anymore.
Don't. You can easily use the shirt placket as a hidden tie stay every time
you're doing dapper outfits. So one of the biggest problems when you're wearing
a dress shirt and a tie in a suit, is that sometimes the tie will sway from
side to side, it'll look messy, or when you take the suit jacket off the time
will be bouncing around over the place. This is something that's usually fixed
with the tie bar. But say you don't want to use a tie bar, you can easily cut an
old shirts placket, use two buttonholes to basically latch on your tie on to
your shirt. It's an easy hack and you're basically repurposing an old shirt that
you were about to throw away. Number three, let's say you don't have time to
iron a shirt or maybe like most guys you don't know how to iron a shirt but you
need it now. Well just throw it into the dryer and throw one or two ice cubes in
there and put the dryer in the hottest setting. Basically once it starts the
cycle, the heat from the dryer will melt the ice cubes and turn it into steam,
removing most of the hard wrinkles from your shirt. Number four, is all about
rolling your sleeves, like a marine almost. Have you seen the Marines that
always have a nice tight sleeve, well say that you want to achieve that, well
basically start with your shirt fully unbuttoned, fold the excess fabric
onto itself evenly, and then fold again. You'll end up right around your elbow
region, if you want more room and more mobility you can keep going and evenly
folding upwards and upwards until you have what I call them a "Marine fold"
that's not going to come loose and gives you full mobility.
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well for you guys. The fifth shirt trick every guy should know is how to
determine if a shirt even fits properly. Now yeah, it seems pretty obvious you'd
think most guys know how to shirt should fit but reality is like I said in
previous videos some guys have taken the whole slim fit thing a little bit too
far, to the point that they're wearing things that just look uncomfortable. So
for you to know if a shirt fits properly, you can do the sit down test. Essentially
wear the shirt in question, go sit down and see what happens, if your buttons
start stretching on each other and pulling and you can see skin from the
side, you need to size up one. Number six comes when you're wearing undershirts,
under your dress shirt. You never want to wear a white undershirt, this is because
it creates a drastic contrast from your natural skin tone color that is visible
through the white dress shirt. If you want to wear it under shirt wear
something like a gray or a shirt that's more closely colored to your skin color,
so that contrast disappears and is no longer visible through your dress shirt.
Like I've always said, when you wear undershirts you want to basically make
sure that they are invisible, that's the right way to wear it. And finally number
seven and little bonus is all about how you fold your t-shirts. When you're
folding a shirt you don't want to be sitting there for two minutes trying to
figure it out. The best way is the ninja fold.
Ever since I learned this fold, I've been raving about it all the time because
it's the it's just saved so much time. All you have to do is grab the shirt
from three points along the same line, you'll flip it, and that's it. Within one
second you're folding t-shirts like a pro and your chores are done within
minutes. So that's it for this week's video guys, those are 7 shirt hacks every
guy should know. If you guys liked this video and found it informative don't
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That's it for me today. See you next time!