4 Reasons To Wear A Pocket Square - Men's Handkerchief Tips - Male Style Fashion Advice
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be giving you four reasons to wear a pocket square.
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Okay, the four reasons, I'll get right to them.
1.
It's going to help you stand out.
2.
It's going to show you to pay attention to detail.
3.
It's going to allow you to introduce a few extra colors to your outfit.
4.
It helps dress up an outfit that otherwise may not appear to be very dressy.
1.
Standing out
This requires a bit of courage.
I think we live in a society and many of us feel that we like to blend in.
It's like one of those things, if you think back to your time in high school or your time
in college, who wants to be the person that the spotlight is on and everyone is looking
at and everyone is scrutinizing?
For most of us, that isn't the ideal place that we want to be.
I mean, there are some people out there who just die and want that spotlight, but for
most people, that's not us.
For various reasons, that's just not us, but a pocket square is a small way, it's a small
little detail which will draw attention.
I challenge you to go to a large city and watch men walk by in suits and try to count
how many pocket squares you see, very few, maybe 1 of out 100.
I think the last time I did that was in London a few years back.
Yeah, in a city like London, I really thought I was going to see more, but it was I think
maybe 1 of out of 50, 1 out of 100 men actually wore a pocket square.
This is something that is very small, but it's something out of the ordinary and it
is going to draw a bit of attention, but I think it's a good detail.
Now, you need to keep it muted depending on what industry you're in.
if you're working in an internet startup company in San Francisco, you can wear the puff.
Wear that thing however you want.
If you're working for a more conservative bank over in New York City, then you're going
to want to go for the TV fold, just that straight one which Harry Truman used to wear all the
time in the presidency.
If you're down in Dallas and you're in a museum, depending on how the museum is, you've got
a bit more leeway there.
What I'm getting at is that you're bringing in something that's going to help you stand
out.
People are going to notice it, maybe even ask you about it, and it's just something
that helps you stand out from the crowd because at the end of the day, we all think of ourselves
as unique human beings, but when it comes down to it, look at other people.
Oftentimes, we don't think of other people as all unique.
We think of them as, "Okay, everyone else is all the same, but I'm the unique person."
Well, by actually wearing a pocket square, you kind of help yourself to stand out a little
bit different visually especially if you're constricted with everything else and you're
having to wear a suit.
You might as well have fun with it.
2.
Details
It shows that you pay attention to the details and the people that notice it are going to
be other sharp dressed people because they're always -- if somebody spends an extra five
to ten minutes every morning making sure that they're well put together, making sure that
they pay attention to their appearance, you're going to pay attention to others.
It's like if you go to the gym and you work out and you take care of your body.
You notice when another guy -- I mean, that has nothing to do with your sexual preference.
It has everything to do with the fact that you put in the time, you put in the effort
to have a good physique, and when you notice a guy who is in good shape as well, it's kind
of like you're part of a club because you know what it takes to look that way, to actually
have a body that responds and has the muscle development that goes into that, the same
way with dressing sharp.
So you're going to start noticing women that go the extra mile and are very stylish.
The great part here is that if you pay attention to these details, you can start complimenting
other people on these details.
You start noticing and you start seeing them.
I don't know about you, but I want people on my team who pay attention to the details
because it's in those details which make the difference between a company that does okay
and a company that's very successful.
3.
Color
As you can see here, I'm introducing a bit of red in my pocket square.
It's something that I don't have it anywhere else in the outfit, but this color, red, is
very closely related to brown and it works very well and it helps to bring out just colors
in my skin.
Now, that's something that a lot of you all -- maybe you've got really piercing blue eyes,
but you can't wear blue shirts all the time because blue shirts, as you've probably noticed,
if you have blue eyes, will bring out your eye color.
But what you can do is bring that in the pocket square and allow to bring out the color there,
or maybe you've got an eye color which you don't want to wear a green shirt or a grey
shirt, but you can put that in your pocket square and all of a sudden, you're allowing
yourself to bring out other colors and make them more noticeable.
4.
It allows you to dress up a more casual-looking outfit
Notice I don't have a necktie on and whenever I go to networking events, a lot of times
when I'm out, I don't wear a tie.
In a number of my videos, you'll see me wearing a tie, but for most cases, I'm not wearing
a necktie.
Now, does that mean that I'm any less stylish or I'm any less dressed than a guy that's
just wearing a poorly fitted suit and has a tie, a red tie with a white shirt on?
I don't think so.
In fact, when I go to these networking events, people, they have to notice them wearing a
pocket and that even though I'm not wearing a necktie, I'm wearing a very nice sports
jacket, perhaps with a very nice pair of grey flannel trousers with well-polished shoes,
so all those little details allow me to actually transcend and look more stylish and better
dressed than perhaps somebody who's in a higher -- technically, a suit is ranked higher when
it comes to the level of formality than a sports jacket and a pair of odd trousers,
but because my stuff fits and looks and the colors are so nice and it all works well,
it actually brings me a bit higher.
Now, if I were to wear a suit with a tie and have all the cuts and everything right, I
would knock it out of the park.
Okay, so those are my four reasons for wearing a pocket square.
The big one is that you've got to get over the mindset that, "I've never worn one in
the past," and, "Why would I start wearing one?"
Try it.
Go with the very simple, conservative fold that's just going to be a straight -- it's
barely visible.
It looks like something that's just barely peeking out of there.
Watch Mad Men.
They do it really well on that television show.
See how many compliments you get.
I think go with a simple white pocket square.
That's the easiest one to start with and it's going to match pretty much anything.
All right.
This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.