How Men’s Jackets Improve your Appearance

Why Wear A Suit Jacket – Sport Jacket – Blazer – How Jackets Improve your Appearance

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Hi. I’m Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. And today I’m going to be talking about the difference a jacket makes. Okay. What guy out there wouldn’t like to be a couple inches taller? Or perhaps, more muscular, or perhaps, lose 20 pounds in the midsection. I mean, all of this sounds great, right? You know it’d be great to have little bit broader shoulders and a body which even Adonis would be jealous of.

Well, for most of us, that means a lot of work in the gym. And for some of us, when it comes to height, we’re just not going to crack, 5’8”-5’9”, well, because nature just didn’t intend it to be that way.

However, there is a secret weapon out there. And it’s not a pill. And it’s not something you’re going to see at 2:00 o’clock in the morning on some late night show. No. It’s actually something you may have already on your wardrobe. It’s a suit jacket, or sport jacket, or a blazer jacket, or any type of jacket that fits you well and cuts a more masculine silhouette, can do all of the things I just mentioned.

So, I’m going to go over how a jacket can – if cut correctly, and if it fits you well, and it’s the right color and pattern, can make you look taller. Can make you look more fit. Can make it look like you’ve lost weight. Can make you look broader in the shoulders. All of these things, which at the end of the day, make you look more masculine, more healthy.

And why does this matter? Well, people want to do business. People want to be around healthy people. I mean, that’s why you don’t have, you know, huge – people just aren’t excited to be going to hospitals or to funerals or things like that. You know that stuff we have to go to but it’s the same. People want to be around healthy individuals because it signifies life. And you want to be a man who looks like he’s going to be around a while. Who looks like he’s someone I want to do business with because he just makes me feel great. You know women want to be around him because they feel comfortable around him. He gives off a very strong masculine feel.

Okay. How does a jacket make you look taller? One, it builds up the shoulders. And when you build up the shoulders, you give an increased perception of height. In addition, on the right type of body, a jacket with, you know, that cuts a little bit thinner silhouette around the torso, can make you look thinner than you are. And anytime anyone looks thinner, they’re just going to make them look taller.

If you wear dark trousers, or you wear with a dark jacket or any type of monochromatic look, which a jacket enables you to do, all of the sudden, you’ve got, something that allows the eyes — kind of a road where the eyes can go up and down on. And this monochromatic look can give an increased perception of height.

You can also double up with you’re a little bit on the shorter side or if you’re just medium height and you want to look taller. And you can actually go for a suit that has some type of pinstripe, chalk stripe, something that allows the eyes, again, to go up and down.

And this is all going – it’s a very small amount but it is a noticeable difference. And it’s something that if you put two men next to each other, the one who is dressed with a suit or with a jacket and a pair of trousers that fit him well or monochromatic and have the right make up, with color and with pattern, there’s going to be a night and day difference.

And it’s not until you’re going to up to that person that you’re like, “Wow, he’s a little bit shorter than I thought.” But that’s why you’re going to think about it because he’s already – in a sense, you’ve got a favorable impression. It’s very hard to get away from – once they form a favorable impression of you, people want to reinforce that. So that’s what you want.

Okay. Now, moving away from height, let’s talk about how does a jacket make you look more muscular? Well, the big thing is, it builds out the shoulders. So, this jacket right here, it probably builds out my shoulders each side, I don’t know, three quarters of an inch. So, my entire shoulders go from being, I don’t know, 18 inches, to about 19 and a half inches.

And that’s a pretty sizeable difference, where I mean, it may not sound like a lot but on the right man, it’s a pretty big difference. And it’s a very pronounced difference because the jacket is darker. You can see the outline of it better. It has got a bit of an edge to it. All of these makes for a broader looking shoulder. And a broader looking shoulder makes a man look more muscular. Because men naturally – they’re going to have larger upper bodies. When you’re going through puberty, you get expose to a healthy amount of testosterone, which forces – and throughout our lives, allow us to build more muscle. And that’s why we’ve got this, you know, bigger upper bodies. And it’s just a natural cue…

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…that people associate that with health.

In addition, whenever you move – and human beings, you know, we, from a distance, can tell that usually the sex and the health of another individual by the way they move. And whenever you move, it’s going to exaggerate your shoulders’ sway just a bit. And this, again, signifies that you’ve got a muscular, a more muscular build. And again, this is something that women are, of course, attracted to it by nature. But also other men and I’m not talking necessarily in the sexual way. I’m just saying that if I want a partner, if I’m going to be, let’s say, going off and hunting or if I am going to be going off into a big project for my company, I want a guy that’s healthy as my partner, who can watch my back and be there. So, you know, that’s where it definitely falls into.
Another part that it creates a bit more muscular look is if you got a good build or you’ve got a semi-good build. By having it fit well in the torso, you’re got to get away from that box look. So usually, a jacket that’s unstructured or one that fall straight down would have a square angle like this. Whenever you put on a jacket, you’re got to do this inverted triangle. So, let me see if I can recreate this. Okay. So, we’ve got something like this.

Anyway, look at the picture that I’ve got from this article. In any case, you’d have this inverted triangle with the big top that goes to the smaller bottom. This is a very masculine look and something that you – basically, the jacket imitates. When you look a shoulder points, and right here, look at this, this “V”. It just creates this image, which throughout human history, has signified strength.

Okay. Now, what about losing weight when I mention that? Well, again, if you’ve got something that fits you well in the chest and because your shoulders are increased, all of the sudden, it’s going to – you may not have much of a drop but it’s going to make you look like you have more of a drop.

And when I say of a drop I mean the distance – the difference between the circumference of your chest and your stomach, and your midsection area. Even though it may be the same, if you wear jackets that fit you well, it’s going to make it look like there’s a substantial drop. And if you’re in a somewhat good shape, it’s going to look even better.

Now, there are limits to that, you don’t want to have some type of hour glass figure. And you don’t want to look like a cartoon character. Body builders have this issue where, you know – we’d actually got to give them a bit more room in the midsection because otherwise, they’re just – well, they’re going to just look cartoonish.

But a bonus to the jacket, which I really didn’t mention before is also, it will make you look more proportional. So, if you’re a really short man, a jacket can help you look thinner. Again, it can make you look a bit taller, so I kind of mention that.

But if you are really a tall man, a jacket can make you look more substantial. Instead of looking tall, skinny and lanky, you’re going to actually look like you’ve got a bit of weight on you. And wear the right jacket made out of the right material. Actually, instead of, you know, with a short man, we say don’t go with any horizontal lines. But as a larger man – I mean, a tall, skinny man, you definitely want to go for the lines going across.

Now, if you’re a tall, large man, you don’t want those lines. But if you’re tall and skinny, you can go with checked fabrics, heavier tweeds. All of these is going to make you look a bit more substantial.

You know, your arms, no one is going to be able to see that you’ve got, you know – that you’re 6’5” and you’ve got, you know, 14-inch biceps. They’re not going to see that. What they are going to see is the outline of the material. And again, it’s going to make you look more substantial, make you look more masculine. And in the end, wearing a jacket is the easiest way to improve your appearance.

This has been Antonio Centeno at Real Men Real Style. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you want more information, please visit our website and we’ve got lots more videos and great articles, and other content there for you to learn more about the foundations of men style. Take Care. Bye-bye.

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