13 Style Hacks You've NEVER Heard Of (But NEED To Know)
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So, I’m willing to bet 20 bucks in today’s video, you’ll learn something new.
Seriously, I did a lot of research, I’m pulling into my bag of tricks, and if I’m
wrong, I’ll explain at the end of video how you can collect 20 bucks from me.
First up, use a Sharpie pen to cover up the scuff marks on black dress shoes. So, I’m
not going to recommend you do this all the time, but if you’re traveling you’re in
a pinch, you don’t have shoe polish, guess what? Whenever you scuff off those shoes,
you can see the leather right you get the spot right there that’s not going to go
away, you can cover it up with a Sharpie pen. Another place to use it is going over on the
sides. I would prefer edge dressing, but if you don’t have access to it, you’re traveling,
again, you can clean up that mark right there, just use the Sharpie.
Next up, you’re getting dressed for an interview, buttoning up your shirt and all of a sudden
you notice the thread on that button is coming off. Now, normally I’d recommend you just
simply cut the button off, sew it back on, five-minute job if you know what you’re
doing. But, you don’t have time for this, how do you get it to stop unraveling now?
Super glue or clear nail polish. All you have to do is apply a little bit of the adhesive,
it will keep the thread from unwinding today. Next up, you’re heading off to a fancy wedding,
you got to get dressed in a suit and tie, it’s been awhile. So, you put on your favorite
white shirt and all of a sudden you realize I can’t button this top button. What do
you do? Now, there are button extenders that you can
buy, but an easier solution for most situations is simply to cut off the button and to resew
it on moving it over half an inch. Now, you’re over at your cousin, you pull
out that suit you packed for the wedding and it’s got wrinkles all over the place, how
do you get rid of them? Now, if you’ve got a steamer, great, problem solved. But, what
if you only have an iron? So, you want to look at the base plate of the iron and you
want to look for one that has a lot of holes like this right here. This is going to have
a great steam function and actually can work at as a steamer as well.
But, let’s say you’re out of luck, they don’t have a steam iron, do they have a
kettle? Now, this is an electric kettle. Prefer a non-electric, the kind that you put right
there on the stove, but you just put water right in there and guess what? We’ve got
steam coming out, enough that you can use on your jacket to get rid of those wrinkles.
Next up, you get a great deal on a pair of jeans, but unfortunately they are way too
long, they need to be hemmed but you have never done this before.
Gents, what I’m about to show you is the easiest way to hem your jeans. So, check this
out. All you have to do is fold the jeans over and at this point you’re going to sew
in and around where the new end is going to be. Then, you’re just going to simply go
with a pair of scissors and cut that off. Look at how simple this is, guys, the easiest
way to hem your jeans. Now, if that’s too difficult, guys. Did
you know that you can use glue to hem your jeans? Yes. Check this out just simply using
hot glue. Now, I have to admit that this is something I do not know how long it’s going
to last, but if you’re going for a temporary fix on a pair of jeans or even a pair of dress
slacks, you need to get them hemmed, you can actually try using hot glue.
Next up, you just finished lunch. You’re walking over to an important meeting. Oh,
wait, I didn’t look at myself in the mirror. Do I have anything on my teeth? Simply pull
out your phone, turn the camera on, flip it around. All right, if you got something on
your teeth, this is how you get rid of it. Now, initially when you notice you got something
on your teeth, you’re going to try to use your finger, but if that doesn’t work, you
need something maybe an ID, I’d even use a piece of paper as a one-time piece of floss.
Now, let’s say you’re headed to an interview later today and your leather notebook you
noticed, wow, this thing is really looking worn, you don’t have any leather conditioner.
How can you actually make this thing look nice? You can actually use lotion that you’d
use on your hands, lotion you would use on your body, lotion you would use on your face
because if you think about it, this is skin right here. It will actually go in and just
make it look a little bit nicer, get rid of some of those scuff marks.
There is one caveat with this. That is, don’t use an aftershave balm. Anything on like this
that contains alcohol is not good for the leather.
Now, that last hack leads to the question can you use face body or hand lotion on shoes?
And the answer is, yes, you can. Now, these lotions are oftentimes made to go into the
leather, so you do have to be careful about over saturating the leather and you need to
be careful that it’s not normally made to give a shine, although you sometimes can get
one if you’ve got a brush. Now, sticking with shoes, what if the toe
box, what if this area right here is too tight on your shoes, how can you loosen it? Well,
one method is to take it to a cobbler. He usually has a shoe expander and he can actually
stretch out the shoe about half a size. But, if you don’t want to do that or one is not
close to you, you could actually put a Ziploc with water in here, put this in the freezer
and guess what? When it freezes, it’s going to expand and stretch out the shoe box just
a bit. Next up, let’s talk about your favorite
shirt. You picked this up five years ago, very difficult to find pattern and all of
a sudden, you look at the collar and you realize, oh, my gosh, there’s a stain here. Or you
look at the cuff and you realize, I don’t know how this hole got here, but all of a
sudden you’re just so upset because you’re going to have to throw this out, or do you?
One of the ways that you can salvage even the collar or the cuff and fix the shirt is
to actually cut of some material from the base tail. The tails are the bottom of the
shirt. If the shirt was made long enough, you could take this to a skilled tailor and
they can use the same pattern right here. They could repair the collar, they can repair
the cuffs, and guess what? You’ve got another five years out of the shirt.
[0:05:07] So, this next hack seems incredibly simple,
but so many guys waste time doing this and that’s when you hung up a shirt, you only
need to button the top button. You don’t need to button all of them.
And, the simple hack for helping your clothing last longer, turn it inside out when you throw
it into the washing machine or even when you iron it. Yes. You can iron your shirts inside
out and they will last longer. And, how to get rid of the frumpy sweater
look? You know what I’m talking about when you get that bunching up here on the sweater
when you put it right over a dress shirt. The answer is to wear an additional tank top
between your dress shirt and the sweater. Which hack was your favorite? Let me know
down in the comments. Now, if you didn’t learn anything new and
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