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be talking about what to wear to a class
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the question that came in and this came
over from Marcel and he's asking hi
Antonio I have to tell you how helpful
your daily videos are well you're
welcome I recently met an old schoolmate
and somehow the question came up what to
wear to our class reunion and so I
started thinking how should I dress
especially when I haven't seen these
people for a long time and I want to
create a solid first impression my usual
go-to outfit is a well fitted suit but
do you have any suggestions and what
would be your thoughts
ok Marcel so let me go ahead and jump
right into this there are a number of
factors other than go into something you
it sounds like a suit is what you're
already planning and if this is what you
normally wear then go for it in addition
that one of the other factors that you
mentioned is that you haven't seen these
people for a long time so here you're
wanting to innocence reset the clock and
if you think about it a lot of these
people maybe haven't seen you for 10
years maybe 20 years and they have this
impression that if the last time they
saw you that's how they remember you
they knew you at a very impressionable
time period and they may look at you as
the class clown they may remember you as
the jock they remember you as the guy at
the back of back at the class that
didn't say anything whatever it may be
most likely you're not that person
anymore you have transformed you have
gone on to do great things and you want
to go in there and show in really
without having to say a word that you
are a different person so in order to
click that reset button I do suggest
that you dress your best and go in there
and just knock them out but you know to
give a little bit more general guidance
the first
thing I would look at is to what I'm
going to wear for anyone else out there
that may have this question is what are
you trying to do and how familiar are
you with the group that's getting
together I went to a small high school
in West Texas and I know a lot of the
people still live in that area back in
around Midland Texas it was a small
school called Greenwood and agree with
you know a lot of people there just in
that area and they see each other you
know whenever they go to any of the
local stores if you happen to go to you
know the Outback or any of the
restaurants you're oftentimes going to
run into somebody
so they've seen most of the people there
but if I went back I haven't seen a lot
of these people for 10 it's I guess how
old am i oh wow is it's going to be you
know 15 years so in that case I would
tell you that I would be wearing at
least a sports jacket a pair of really
nice raw denim or a pair of odd trousers
with probably my Western boots or a
dress-up
slip-on loafers but that would be me
because I realized I would be wanting to
click the reset to show that I have
changed and I'm no longer that really
quiet shy guy that never really said
anything that I've kind of transformed
myself into someone I'm very proud of
and I want people to know that there's
also the issue and some of you may be
feeling this especially if you were
pigeon-holed as someone that was super
quiet or perhaps you were very unpopular
and people made fun of you perhaps you
don't want to go into this you want to
go show these people that you're beyond
that and there's a bit of a
psychological barrier so dressing nice
is kind of like a suit of armor you're
going to go in there and you know you're
going to show them that hey I am a
successful person and you may be still
that small person that's going to think
of me as you know that loser that you
know didn't really didn't that you
didn't think was going to amount to
anything but I'm here to show you that I
overcame that and I hope that you have
become a bigger a bigger person as well
so you know take those factors into
account how how often do you see these
people if you see these people on a
daily basis and you're in that local
town and everyone going to be it's going
to be attending this except for maybe
one or two people you've seen you know
just last week you probably don't have
to dress to the same extent although you
can because at the end of the day maybe
you're dressed I
I know I often dress and I talk about it
I want people to dress to the level
really that they're showing self respect
and they dress for themselves not so
much together you know dressing for
others is kind of the secondary reason
really you're dressing for yourself and
yeah just remember you're representing
your family there's the good chance that
you'll be bringing your wife or your
significant other with you and so you
maybe even your if it's a family of that
maybe your kids will be there so you
want to put your best foot forward so
whether it's a suit whether it's a
sports jacket odd trouser whether it's a
nice pair of denim with a dress shirt or
you know if you've just got off work and
you you work in an industry in which
you're going to have to be wearing your
uniform at least make sure it's clean
and well put together but at the end of
the day put forth the image that you
want control that and have fun all right
this has been Antonio Centeno with real
men real style I'll see you in the next
video bye-bye