Our 100th Men's Style Tip Video - Our Future, Answers To Common Questions, & A Secret Tip!
Hi, I'm Antonio Sentinel, the founder of Real Men Real Style, and today weíre celebrating
100 videos.
I'm going to go ahead and answer some questions that I have received; kind of personal questions
but I know youíre probably curious about them.
I'm also going to talk about the future of this video series.
Weíve covered a hundred videos and I'm going to talk about the next hundred.
In addition, I'm going to talk about how you can help this video series grow and finally
I got a secret tip for you ñ if you really got a burning style question that you want
me to answer it quick.
How to get me to jump on that quicker.
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Okay, letís just jump right into this, you guys have come at me with some really good
questions and some of them are a bit more personal and I held off on answering them
but let me go ahead and answer some of them and this is something thatís been asked more
than one time, so if you only asked it one time, I'm probably not going to go that deep
and I'm not going to get too personal but many of you guys have asked how did you get
into this?
You have a background in the military.
How did you transition into becoming a custom clothier and a tailor?
And the truth is I'm not a tailor, I'm a custom clothier and the difference is, is I'm more
on the business side.
I worked with some amazing tailors and I realized that I didnít have 20 years of experience
like my tailors do.
So it was something that I came in and I worked with this gentlemen, I got my MBA at the University
of Texas and it helped me jump start my business ñ me understanding how to do this kind of
stuff.
And I brought this guys together and itís been a ñ the last four years have been amazing.
I feel like Iíve been a big part of helping revive a dying craft by helping raise awareness.
It kind of breeze guys as a ñ I mean the art that they do with the needle and thread
and bring it to more menís attention.
So I'm really proud of that.
The other question I get is, ìokay, Antonio what about these lapels on your jacket?
We look at your jacket and the lapels are not symmetrical.
I think I've got a notch here and then I've got, what is this over here?
Okay, I wear a custom made sports lapel and I designed ñ well, I saw this on a jacket
a long time ago and didnít think much about it then the client ask me to make ñ he sent
me a jacket and had it; I'm like, I love this.
And this jacket is actually designed, itís a historic piece so which designed to actually
close up like this because if you look at any old military jackets, youíll see that
a lot of them go all the way to the top.
Just like what I showed you there.
And thatís because they were designed to fully encapsulate the top of the chest and
keep you warm.
In fact in the Marine Corps they call us leathernecks because we wore strap of leather around the
neck to protect you from like you say someone try to cut off your head with a sword.
It would have to be very strong blow, they had a battle axe, well strip the leather in
and stop that but thatís the story behind my lapels.
I really like the history and the a bit of a military side to this part right here.
So you guys are always asking me about why are you always wearing a sports jacket and
you donít seem to have a whole lot of sports jacket because I thought you would have like
ten.
And the answer is, I only keep around two to three sports jackets down here in the studio
and overall, I got a pretty small wardrobe and I practice what I preach and what I talk
about is for you to have interchangeable wardrobe and thatís what exactly what I have.
So I have less clothing than you would think but all of my clothingís classic and works
with each other and itís interchangeable.
The other thing is you guys asked about, ìokay Antonio, why can't you add more pictures to
your videos?î I see you up there talking, why canít you just ñ give me a presentation
and a slideshow?î I've done that with a few videos but I find it for these videos, itís
really hard, it takes a lot of time to edit them and I didnít want to put out one video
a month.
And in fact I'm going to try to increase this to about two videos a day because I really
want to get out the information and I'm developing something called ìThe style systemî and
in the style system, thatís where I'm going to step by step show you how to build and
build your sense of style and build a wardrobe and I realized and those videos I'm going
to make it much more where youíve got pictures in there but for these videos I'm putting
up here on YouTube, Iím going to keep them really simple because I want to get to you
very quickly.
Okay, so what's up for the future?
What's going on with the next 100 videos?
And yes, now that we fed a hundred videos, the next hundred, I can tell you 50 of them
are already going to be Q&Aís because you guys have sent me a lot of questions.
I think I've got 50 in the Q and I expect there to be more.
So I'm trying to work through those, I take them as I get them and I'm going to share
with you the secret tip at the end.
How you can bump yourself up to the top?
I'm also going to cover a lot of productÖ
Öreviews so thereís little things that I received this tiesí a friend ñ itís a gift
from a friend of mine named Hendric Paul, and he runs a great company which I'm going
to highlight and talk about his neckties.
I've also received neckties from Charles Alexander.
I've got some great accessories that I'm going to be reviewing.
I've always ñ I think I've already talked about Rib Ty and Michael Swartz and his company
over there.
So thereís quite a few ñ actually who was at leather honey and I'm about to hit them.
So there's a lot of companies that I need to review and I want to share with you about
their products and this is not a commercial.
These are products I really believe in and I wear and I use and I want you to know this
so that you can make an informed decision because thereís a lot, a lot of information
out there and I want to help you weep through it.
Okay I'm also going to be talking about hair with the barber.
So I'm not just going to talk about hair because as you can see, my hair is pretty simple.
I donít have a lot of it and I'm not really styling it too much but I know that this is
something a lot of you all have questions about.
So I'm going to be partnering with a barber and sheís a very, very intelligent woman
and weíre going to go and weíre going to talk about old school barbering.
I'm not going to get so much into a lot of salon and styling kind of stuff like that.
Weíll touch on it but this is going to be old school barbering and how you can go in
and talk to your barber and sound like you know what youíre talking about.
Be able to get what you want.
Alright, the next 1,000 videos, yes believe or not, I'm thinking that far ahead.
I really want to get into series and this series are going to be 10 to 20 parts, 10
to 20 videos in which we stick on one topic and I go into it in a lot of details.
Well a lot of my early videos I spent 10 minutes on the subject.
I wanting to break that up and maybe have like 10 videos that are each three to five
minutes long and so you can give me some suggestions of what you would like to see with this series
but I am going to talk about hair, weíre going to talk about grooming, I'm going to
talk about neckties, I'm not just going to talk about how to tie a necktie, the one way.
Weíre going to talk about 10 different knots to tie because I know that you want to change
these things up and there are different knots that you want to use for different color types.
Okay, so how to help?
How can you ñ I know not all of you all are ever going to buy my clothing but I get a
lot of emails and you guys are asking, how can we help you Antonio grow?
Well, the best thing that you can do is to share my videos and to pass them on to men
who can really use this information.
I think the videos, I try to keep them really useful and really packed full of information
and I think men would really appreciate this because its discrete.
They can watch this on their own time, in their own privacy of their homes and they
donít have to worry about somebody saying that they actually care how they look because
thereís a lot of guys that they still arenít going to get pass the point that dressing
sharp is manly.
But whether ñ thatís not really the point, the point is I want more men to dress sharp
and I donít care if theyíre going to shout out that theyíre dressing sharp.
I just want them to do it.
And so if you know some guys out there, please pass my videos along the net.
And of course like, subscribe, ash into that in every video and you guys are doing a great
job.
So, what is the secret tip?
How can I jump to the pack?
Because like I said, I've got 50 questions in the Q and actually thereís a few more
that just popped up and they keep coming in.
Well, the secret answer to get your answer up to the top is one for it to be a good question.
So if youíve got a good question and when I mean good, you actually have maybe an example.
You give me a lot of detail and you probably; the best way to actually get a hold of me
is to either, whenever I put out a video, comment right below it.
And the number one way which I will respond probably to your question within a few days
is if you send me a video response, I'm going to answer your question because if you think
about it, you put it out there and you kind of put me on the spot because you're saying,
ìHey Antonio.î The world can see I'm asking you directly.
Can you help me?
You do a video response to one of my videos; weíll get back to you very quickly.
So thatís the probably the secret ingredient -- the secret tip.
Get in front of the camera.
Itís not as bad as you think.
Just flip on your webcam.
Ask me the question and again, give me as much detail as you can because sometimes people
ask me questions, theyíll anything about themselves and I really cant give you specific
information if I donít know a whole lot about you.
And just to let you know, I'm always go ñ going to try to keep it pretty general because
I want it to apply to as many men.
I donít want it to be so specific that it only applies to you because I'm trying to
help a lot of guys here but at the same time, I really do want it to be useful so it will
be a bit specific but not too specific if that makes sense.
Okay guys, this is a big thank you for me.
I really appreciate it.
You guys have made this channel what it is.
I appreciate all the feedback, all the likes, and I read all the comments so keep them coming
and Iíll see you --