Why A T-Shirt Does Not Complement Most Male Body Types – Mens Fashion Style Advice Tips

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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 why a t-shirt doesn’t flatter with most male body types.Okay. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. By doing that, the videos will come right to you. In addition, if you like this video, if you find it useful, I would appreciate it if you would click on the Like button right down there. And finally, if you want to learn more about what I’m talking about, go ahead and go to the articles which were linked right over here. I always linked useful articles which will teach you more about men’s style.Okay. T-shirts do not flatter most men’s body type. Let me just throw that out there. And you know, that’s hard for a lot of guys to accept because we love t-shirts. We grow up wearing t-shirts. We wear them into our 20s. We wear them through our college, highschool. And we want to continue to wear t-shirts because that’s what we have always known.But unfortunately a t-shirt does not complement a man’s built unlike a jacket. And I’ll get into – and you’ve seen tons of videos of me, if you haven’t, there’s lots of them out there, but I’m wearing a sports jacket 99% of the time. Now, I’m wearing a t-shirt today. And this is a great t-shirt. This is actually – one may buy it — a good friend of mine, Sharky Liu over the company Juice Streetwear. And I link them over here at Real Men Real Style.

But I am fortunate because I probably in the classification of men who can wear t-shirts and look pretty good. Because I take care of my body, I exercise, I eat well, so those things right there. And a t-shirt just shows off a masculine built. I don’t have huge biceps or triceps. You know, that’s my one weakness. I’m a bit thin when it comes to overall built. But you know, I don’t have a huge stomach and so a t-shirt looks pretty good on me. And when I go out and it’s hot I can pull this off.

But for most men who have weight in the mid-section or going to be having weight in the mid-section or let’s say, are short or are really tall and lanky, a t-shirt is not something which is going to look great on you. And the reasons are, is it’s going to draw focus one to your arms. And if you’ve got really thin arms or really not great-looking arms, you know, where – I mean, where were your eyes being focused at? Well, the contrast is between the dark shirt and my arms here.

In addition, it doesn’t have any structure around the neck. So that’s another thing right there. You know, it’s just – it doesn’t really build up and it doesn’t have a great look due to those areas in the body where you’re instantly drawn.

The other one is, if you have a bit of a stomach, a t-shirt does not hide it. In fact, it accentuates. So if you got a bit of a stomach bulge, it’s going to show that off. And it just doesn’t look great.

Another thing is it violates the rules of thirds. So oftentimes, you’re wearing a pair of trousers or pants or jeans which have a contrast with the t-shirt. And it doesn’t got used — so the rule of thirds states that you want something to be either two-thirds and one-third and that’s how, you know, when you wear a jacket, it actually goes down past your buttocks. A shirt, usually when you’re wearing it untucked, it just goes barely past the buckle, maybe an inch or two below that. And that basically cuts you in half especially if there’s a strong contrast there. And it just doesn’t look as appealing or as aesthetically appealing as a jacket and just trust me. And I’m going to show here in a second.

And then finally, a t-shirt does not build up the shoulders at all. So in addition to making the stomach area maybe look a little bit bigger, it makes, you know, it doesn’t do anything for building up you over here in the shoulder area.

Now let me throw in a jacket and show you the difference. So here is a sports jacket that I had made. And I could probably wear this into a club. How do I look? Pretty good. I don’t about the pockets where they’re made almost too much. I probably wear a white one or maybe even a black one. But you can see immediately my shoulders are built out. My shoulders are built out. I don’t know, it’s maybe three-quarters of an inch — half an inch on each side eventhough I got a pretty soft shoulder here.

And so it’s a very small amount. You can’t see down here but it does bring in my mid-section a bit. And by doing that, by bringing in my mid-section, what happens is it – your top area is built up, will create more of the masculine V. And by creating that masculine V, it just makes you look more masculine, more manly. And that’s always a great thing because people want to be around healthy males. We don’t want to be around sickly individuals.

And being overweight and having it exaggerated by t-shirt, it makes you look less healthy. And you don’t want that. So you know, again, we’re talking – think of it like you know, Christmas…

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…time. You get excited when you were a kid when you saw all those presents under the tree and they’re wrapped really nice. Now imagine those same presents if – well, you probably will still be excited as a kid but you wouldn’t get – it would be less exciting if they were just wrapped in a look like crap.

And really that’s what a t-shirt when worn by itself, in my opinion. Unless you’ve got the body of Adonis or you’ve got a good built, which for 70% to 85% of us were not in that category. You know, it just isn’t going to be the best in your wear. And we’re on all about men dressing their best so that they can get the opportunities that they know they deserve.

So when you’re thinking about what you’re going to wear out there, give a second thought to just wearing a t-shirt by itself. Consider a long — I mean I know not everyone is going to be wearing a jacket. So consider a long-sleeve work shirt if you’re a blue collar – you know, if you’ve got a job as mechanic or you got job as a plumber, don’t wear a t-shirt as your company shirt. I mean you need to be looking at, “Okay, what can I be wearing that not only looks better on me but also protects me as well?” T-shirts don’t do a great job protecting you. So look at a long-sleeve shirt that you know, has a collar to it and make sure you just look better and more proportional, and does a better job giving you a more masculine look.

Okay. This is Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style. Hopefully I made a pretty strong case. If not, go read the article and I’ll talk about it quite a bit more.

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