10 Mind Blowing Style Facts [0:00:00]
Mind-blowing style fact number one.
Men have been the predominant users of makeup through most of recorded history.
Yeah.
Let’s go back ten thousand years.
You’re about to go on the hunt, what are going to do?
You’re going to put on that camouflage so that you can better track and catch that animal.
You’re about to go into a battle, what are you going to do?
You’re going to put on that battle paint so that you can strike fear in the heart of
your enemy.
Now, you may be saying that’s a bit of stretch, Antonio.
Okay.
Let’s go to 4000 BC, ancient Egypt.
What do we see?
The leaders that pharaohs the priests, they are all wearing makeup especially eyeliner.
3000 BC China, what do we see?
That they’re actually wearing nail polish to signify your class in society.
Gentlemen, makeup started with us and in today’s video, I’ve got ten mind-blowing style facts
that, yeah, it’s – this one is going to be fun.
Ready, guys?
Let’s get into it.
[Music] Mind-blowing style fact number two, gentlemen,
men are dying to look good.
Men put their lives on the line to look sharp.
So, number one is they were actually shaving.
So, shaving for the most part is pretty safe, but if you get yourself a nasty cuts couple
of hundred years ago and you didn’t know that this could lead to a complication or
infection, you’re in bad shape.
Just ask Lord Carnarvon . He’s the guy that went into King Tut’s tomb noticed probably
that he was wearing makeup and within three months, boom!
He is dead from a complication of a shaving cut.
Another example of something.
So, 200 years ago the detachable collar hit the scene, but there became some type of craze
to get these things really tight and men loved it.
Well, you know what happens?
When you put a tight collar and you buttoned it up with two to three buttons around your
neck and you start to sweat, you start to cut off the air flow, you start to cut off
the circulation.
And you cut off that circulation, very quickly you find yourself on the floor and if you
don’t get that thing cut off, you are going to die.
They used to call those things father killers.
Style fact number three.
Men and flowers they go together very well.
And, in fact if you know your history, you’ll know that flowers are very manly are very
masculine.
One of the things that they would do when they would take over an area especially Alexander
the Great is he would plant roses.
Julius Caesar, another lover of roses.
The Romans love the roses because they symbolize connection with their gods, the smelling of
them that it was basically another worldly experience.
Now, as men where can we pull this off?
In our wardrobe.
Look a floral pattern right here in my shirt, I’ve got a floral pattern right here in
my pocket square, this tie has a floral pattern.
So, this right here this little boutonniere is actually -- and boutonnieres in general
were a symbol of flowers getting pinned on the lapel when a soldier was going into combat.
But, this red poppy right here after World War I was known as the Remembrance Poppy and
any military man knows that you – when you wear this, you’re basically showing respect
for those that have died in combat.
Now, these beautiful roses right here, guys, hopefully is a reminder that Valentine’s
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Mind-blowing style fact number four.
Pink was originally a man’s color which is I know is a lot – hard for a lot of you
guys to fathom.
But, yes, pink because of its proximity to red was believed to be a war-like type of
color.
And it was something that was worn by both sexes, but men especially.
In fact, if you go back and you look at the Great Gatsby, you’ll see that he wore a
pink suit.
Now, it was believed that maybe this was a little bit more lower class, but it still
show that this was a strong masculine color.
Then, in the 1960’s and 70’s, something happened.
We saw our clothing manufacturers start to divide colors for young children for babies
and they said we’re going to make blue for boys we’re going to make pink for girls
and the rest is history.
Mind-blowing style fact number five.
Throughout most of recorded history, men have been the wearers of jewelry.
Why?
Because it symbolized power, it symbolized wealth, it allowed you to show the world what
you had.
And it wasn’t just about the gold and the silver and all the diamonds and the rubies
and stuff like that, but it was also about the colors, certain type of clothing, purple
was a signal of royalty.
[0:05:07] A lot of this was just simply to show that
you had something that others could not have.
Why it was purple?
Because it actually was a very labor-intensive process to get this type of colors and there
were certain laws about who could wear what types of jewelry, who could wear what types
of clothing.
All of this was to symbolize who is in charge.
Now, this next mind-blowing fact is really interesting, but all men about a hundred years
ago used to wear dresses up to the age of 6 or 7.
Why?
Britches or pants were very difficult to take off.
And if you are a young boy and you’re potty training, you just need something that’s
very simple.
If you’re having a large family, you want clothing that can be passed on to either sex.
At that point everyone is wearing a dress up to about the age of 6 or 7 when they can
basically take down their pants themselves.
So, for practicality purposes, most men, your great, great, great grandfather was probably
wearing a dress.
Next on the mind-blowing style facts, hey, high heels started with men.
Now, I’m talking about high heels were initially started so that a man could stay up in a stirrup,
but interesting things would happen throughout fashion trends.
We would see that somebody would come in with a little bit higher heels, oh, they look taller.
All of a sudden, we started seeing platform shoes, we started seeing incredibly high heels.
We saw high heels that were painted red, all of a sudden these fashion trends came in and
the first high heels out there, yes, belonged to men.
Now, eventually women took this over, but, hey, it started with us guys.
Mind-blowing style fact number eight.
Men look at themselves in the mirror more than women on average.
So, this is based off a study that showed men on average are checking themselves in
the mirror twenty three times a day, women sixteen times a day.
Now, the study I went through and look at it, it didn’t actually said about how much
time they were looking in the mirror, what actually they’re looking at in exacting
details.
And I did see I think the population size was relatively small.
But, I want to hear from you guys down in the comments, do you agree?
Does this sound right?
Do you know men that actually check themselves in the mirror twenty three times a day?
Now, this next mind-blowing style fact, I’ve talked about before, but basically the more
clothing you wear, the more confident the more intelligent you will appear.
Now, this is within bounce so we’re talking about normal clothing here, but basically
if you expose skin, so if you wear a short sleeve shirt, if you’re wearing a shirt
that opens right here in the front area if not wearing a tie, you basically you’re
starting to show more skin.
You’re wearing shorts, you are going to be perceived and we’re assuming that it’s
the same man same face everything else has been the same as less intelligent than a guy
that’s wearing clothing that covers themselves up.
This is the same for men and for women, but very interesting.
So, if you’re going in to give a presentation, don’t wear shorts.
Mind-blowing style fact number ten.
One of America’s most patriotic songs, Yankee Doodle Dandy is actually about fashion and
no one seems to know this.
So, if you go back and you look at the original song, Yankee Doodle went to town riding on
a pony, stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.
So, with that song, no one seems to know what – what is a macaroni?
A macaroni refers to a British man who went and traveled throughout Europe and came back
with all the fashion and the dandyisms of Continental Europe, but really had no idea
what he was talking about.
It was basically they were making fun of the Americans who seem to think that they could
just put a feather in their cap and think of themselves as noblemen.
So, the British created the song making fun of the Americans.
The Americans said, this is a great tune, let’s just sing it and to, you know, the
British were like, what?
We’re supposed to be making fun of you guys and we just took the song, love it, and ended
up winning the war.
So, little things like that just make me laugh because people hear macaroni, they think it’s
referring to the pasta.
No, it’s referring to this outlandish style of wearing a huge wig with a tiny hat with
a feather in it.
All right, gents, now it’s your turn.
I want to hear from you down in the comments which of these mind-blowing style facts actually
did blow your mind?
You’re like I had no idea, Antonio.
I want to hear from you guys down in the comments.
And, don’t forget Valentine’s Day, it’s right around the corner.
Do not be the guy that forgets about his wife or his sister or his mother.
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Thank you for you guys being amazing supporters of what we do and that’s it, guys.
Take care and, yeah, love your flowers.
See you in the next video.
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