Man's Guide To Tying A Scarf - 7 Simple Ways To Tie Scarves - Man Tieing Scarfs
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be giving you seven simple techniques on how to tie a scarf.
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All right, how to tie a scarf, seven simple techniques.
I've already covered why a man should wear a scarf.
I've talked about the history of scarves and I've even talked about different types of
scarves and given you seven techniques on how to choose a scarf.
So now, let me give you seven simple ways to tie a scarf, and when I say simple, I do
mean simple.
Nothing here is going to be complicated.
There are an infinite number of ways, or maybe not infinite, but there are a very large number
of ways to tie a scarf.
I'm not going to get into those complicated ways because one of the things that I believe
with a man is that he needs to keep it simple.
He needs to, whenever he ties his scarf, not even really think about it.
I can tell you I know how to tie a scarf probably like 50 different ways, but I use these simple
techniques 99% of the time.
And I do live in an area in which it's cold, so I do this, but it's something that I don't
see why you need to -- you know, there is even a book out there about a hundred and
some odd ways to tie a necktie, but really when it comes down to it, I use two to three
knots on most of my neckties, and the same with scarves.
It doesn’t need to be complicated.
At the end of the day, focus on function which is to keep you warm.
And the fashion, that's nice.
It's an afterthought for me, but it's not something I focus on.
Okay, so the first knot that we'll -- it's not really a knot.
It's a simple drape, and this is where you wear the scarf just right over like this and
you see this a lot in cities.
You can wear it outside of the overcoat, although I like to wear it underneath the overcoat
or trench coat or whatever type of jacket, and then you're using the actual jacket to
keep it in place.
So how does the drape work?
Why do you even use it?
Well, the drape is incredibly simple.
It looks good.
And even though it doesn’t provide much warmth, it does in a sense because what it
does is it seals up the areas here.
Most men actually don't have jackets.
This overcoat is custom.
I made it and it fits me very well.
Most men have a lot of room in here and that's what you're looking to fill with the drape,
is fill up this excess room.
In addition, the fashion part, it introduces some color.
So you see I'm not wearing a necktie also and we've got color, so that is the drape.
That is the first simple fold.
Now, let's talk about the reverse drape.
By the way, in case you're wondering about this scarf, my friends over at Homme Delicacy,
they sent this to me.
I'll link to them down below.
They've got an entire great section on men's scarves.
This one is made of wool, very nice.
It's got a little bit of the tassels and stuff, but it's still a pretty manly scarf.
All right, so the reverse drape, it's simply where I turn it around here, throw it back,
pretty simple again.
This one is worn a little bit more out.
Let's say on my overcoat, if I were to button it up all the way and I wanted to show off
a little bit more of the scarf, then I could do the reverse drape.
So here, on my front here, I've got same length and then I'm reversing over.
And depending on the look that you're going for, you may want to look in the mirror and
look at what side is showing.
To me, I never pay attention to that, but some of you guys may want to.
At the end of the day, guys, keep is simple.
Again, the reverse drape, this one's nice because it does a good job of closing it up,
but it uses its own weight.
The bad part about this is easily, it can come undone.
And so, if you're going to be moving around quite a bit, it's not as great.
You can also put this one under the overcoat a little bit harder because of what it's going
to be laying down on your back, but this one works pretty good.
All right, the overhand, another simple one.
We're going to have to make a slight change though as we're going to pull this so that
about three quarters of the length over here, one quarter the length, you can see the tassel
right here, and we're going to be coming over and under.
So this is the overhand, a very simple front knot.
You don't have to get this exactly perfect.
In fact, I probably could've gone one-third and two-thirds.
This is a little bit long, but at the end of the day, you see what I'm doing here, so
a very simple front knot.
You can tighten this up a bit.
Here, it's giving almost like a tie, so a little bit of a pronounced knot here.
I don't like this one as much.
Unless you seal up the jacket, you're not going to fill up a lot of the room here, so
that's the overhand.
Okay, the once around.
Again, we're going to have probably about a quarter, three quarters over here, and I'm
going to go once around, so just like it said.
I think this one is a lot nicer than the overhand, very simple.
It wraps around.
Now, you guys, there may be some guys out there worried having something around their
neck too much.
It's not what they want.
I've never heard of anyone having issues with this.
I think this is a very warm knot even here in Wisconsin.
Now, let's say it's really cold.
Well, let's talk about the twice around.
Let me go ahead and show you the length of this scarf.
This scarf is about 60 inches long.
I'm 69 inches high, so yeah, 60 inches long.
I'm going to need something longer for my build to do the double, the twice around.
And so, now I've got this scarf.
Again, my friends over at Homme Delicacy sent me this one as well, very nice.
It's actually made out of silk.
As you can see, this one is about 72 inches in length.
So the length of your scarf and also the thickness is going to affect -- so the more complicated
knots, the thicker the scarf, the bigger that knot is going to be, although if you've got
a really long, thin scarf, you can go for more wraps, so that's what we have here.
This is overall a very warm fabric for silk, but its length, again, 72 inches, allows me
to do the twice around.
As you can imagine, I go around once, I go around twice, not exactly perfect, but you
can see that that was close enough and then I can close this up.
And even at 72 inches, that's pretty close.
I would probably definitely fully seal my jacket at this point, but it's enough fabric
and it's going to be tighter around the neck.
I don't know if I'd wear this one like this, but for those of you guys, experiment and
find which type of scarf knot works for your body type and for the clothing that you're
wearing.
All right.
I wanted to bring in -- actually, a little bit too early.
Let me go ahead and I'm going to stick with the 72-inch here because I want to show you
guys the fake knot, so this is the sixth knot, a little bit more complicated, although not
really.
What we're going to do is I've got it approximately one-third, two-thirds.
And over here on the two-thirds part, I'm going to tie a little bit of a knot.
And so, I've got about -- I'd probably give myself a good 18 inches to 12 inches right
here.
Don't tie it very tight because what we're going to do is bring this right into here,
so it looks like you tied a knot, but really you tied just a simple knot on one end and
then you place the other end right through it, so very basically fake knot.
You can tighten this up a bit, a lot like the overhand.
I'm not a big fan of this one and the reason being is it's more of a fashion knot than
a practical warmth knot.
The great thing here, again, like the overhand is that you can loosen this up and you can
wear it looser.
I like it whenever it is with a kind of a clunkier, heavier scarf or one that's -- you
want to keep that knot pretty loose and that always looks a bit better, but those knots
right there, when you're doing that, you're getting away from the function, more fashion-forward,
so you need to know what you're doing.
This last one, I'm going to be using a beautiful silk scarf and this is handmade by my friends
over at Brown, Diem.
My friend, Christopher Brown, actually made this over in Boston.
He reuses a kimono silk among other things, really one of a kind.
Yeah, they are one of a kind.
Now, this scarf right here, I'm going to use the Parisian knot or the French knot, very
simple knot, but one that you need a longer scarf for.
So we can see the length of this scarf right here.
Again, we've got probably 72 inches.
So I'm going to fold it exactly in half and I've got this loop right over here, so bring
it around and there we go, very simple knot, one that actually is pretty warm.
So even with this silk scarf, I think this looks pretty good, not necessarily with this
overcoat, but overall the knot and the color that we allow out works really well.
I could do this with that other -- again, we want to have around the 72-inch scarf when
you do something like this.
The Parisian knot is for longer lengths.
The great thing about this, incredibly warm, you've got the double scarves, or basically,
it's like two loops going around and it forms this nice knot, very simple.
Even here, right now we've got -- it's snowing outside.
I could wear this and not even button this up and it'll look good.
All right.
Those were seven simple techniques on how to wear a scarf.
I'm going to be going on and doing another video about more complicated ways and I may
even break this video out into each of the knots, but hopefully you find the one that
works for you.
At the end of the day, guys, remember to keep it simple.
You don't want to be thinking about this.
Simply do the wraparounds.
Occasionally pick in, bring in one or two knots that you really like and this is really
all you need.
Again, 99.9% of the knots I tie are within these.
This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.