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Working Man Casual Style Tips - How Men Dress Professionally for Work - Blue Collar Mens Fashion - YouTube
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Working Man Casual Style Tips - How Men Dress
Professionally for Work - Blue Collar Mens
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Fashion
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Hi.
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men
Real Style.
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Today I'm going to be talking about style
for the young man who works with his hands.
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This is in response to a question I received
from an Ag student.
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And heís wondering how can he dress with
style when heís going into a profession in
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which heís going to be working with his hands
getting dirty and really dress shoes, dress
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slacks, suits arenít something that heís
going to be wearing very often at all.
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This is the question I received.
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ìAntonio, first off, I want to thank you
for this website.
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I only discovered it a day ago and Iím already
eating it up and trying to discover wearing
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ñ how to wear and dress better.
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Iím in a bit of a dilemma.
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Iím a sophomore at college in Ag school and
Iím majoring in landscape contract and management.
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I constantly wear the same basic t-shirt,
plain black and white and with a random company
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on it with ñ or a random brand with jeans
and Converse shoes.
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I want to develop a style better for my age,
but at the same time useful for my environment
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in my area of study.
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I want something that I can wear around campus
to class when I hang out with friends.
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However, I do not know where to start.
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A lot of the information you have on this
website doesnít really pertain to me in my
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current situation.
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Can you give me some options?î
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This gentleman, heís exactly right.
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Most of what I talk about is going to be stuff
with jacket, with dress shirts, dress shoes,
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a little bit more formal.
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But for ñ probably a majority of men out
there, especially in the United States, this
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isnít daily wear.
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Itís something maybe they could, you know,
I would like to see more men wear.
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But realistically, it was a small percentage
of men.
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So let me talk about and let me highlight.
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Below here, thereís going to be a link to
an article I did over at the article list
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talking about blue color style.
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Thereís a lot more information in that article
and I highly advice you go check it out.
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But I will tell you is to focus on ñ I think
the same things you focus on with this type
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of clothing, you should focus on with the
type of clothing that even though it would
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be work clothing or clothing that you would
expect to get a little bit more dirty, still
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you want to focus on fit, fabric and style
and youíre going to hear me if youíve watched
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my vides, I like to talk about these three
things.
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And so, the fit.
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Whatever youíre going to wear, make sure
it fits you properly.
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Just because itís work clothing, just because
itís clothing that youíre going to get,
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you know, dirty and youíre going to ruff
up, it should still fit you.
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And thereís a big reason for this because
if itís work clothing and if it fits you
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properly, youíre actually going to be able
to move this here.
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So, if you look at older pictures ñ and I
really look at history, look at our grandfathers,
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our great grandfathers.
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Look at the man that built the skyscrapers.
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I mean, these were men, you know, high above
New York City on the sky line, you know, with
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I-beams.
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You know, look at the way they were dressed,
overall, they were wearing clothing that looked
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pretty sharp with trim and it fit them closely
because when a clothing fit you right, itís
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almost like a jacket.
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And so, the same principles apply that if
I make this arm sky too big, it actually is
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going to restrict my arm.
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But because this arm sky is higher up, I can
actually move my arm around.
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The same applies to work clothing.
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So youíre going to want to make sure your
work clothing fits you properly so you have
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good freedom of movement, and itís just going
to look better as well, especially if you
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take care of your body.
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If youíre young man, youíre probably in
the best shape youíre ever going to be in
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your entire life, you know.
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You want to look ñ you know, make sure the
clothing fits you.
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Itís just going to look better.
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Okay.
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So just like when weíre talking about fit,
letís talk about fabric.
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So this really actually ñ instead of fabric,
I could switch out and put in quality.
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You want to be looking at pieces of clothing,
but youíre going to get a lot of mileage
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at it.
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Oftentimes, when we go and we get work clothing,
we think ñ let me get something thatís disposal
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because Iím going to be tearing it up.
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Well, you know, if youíre maybe in welding
ñ or actually welding is not a great example
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because you want a clothing that can, you
know, resist sparks and extreme heat.
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But if youíre in something, letís say painting.
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You know, you probably ñ I can understand
if youíre a painter that you want to wear
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a clothing that after enough wears that youíve
got paint on it that you can throw it away.
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Understood.
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But for most of the professions, you could
actually go with a piece of ñ you know, go
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with a quality work shirts, something that
fits you well and youíre going to get a lot
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of wear out of it and it protects you better.
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Just because youíre going to be working outside
doesnít mean you need to be wearing some
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old ruddy t-shirt.
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Thatís probably the biggest mistake I see
men who are working outside.
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They wear this older ruddy t-shirts which
one doesnít even really protect you.
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You should be looking at a quality work shirt,
something that has a color on it.
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But Iíve seen work shirts that actually only
button up to the mid-chest area and then they
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donít button up so that the buttons donít
get caught.
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But in anywhere, I would go look at western
store, thereís a lot of really good looking
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quality western shirt or ñ not western shirt,
some of them do look western, theyíve got
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the whole western pockets.
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You donít have to go that route.
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I understand if you, you know, thatís not
your style.
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But a lot of this other work shirts, very
plain, very simple, but theyíre made from
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rugged materials.
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Theyíre actually breathable.
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And these are going to protect your forearms.
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Theyíre going to protect your neck better.
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And if you get, you know, I donít know if
youíre up something sharp on the work area,
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you know, itís going to actually prevent
that sharp object from cutting your body.
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Yes, it may tear the shirt, but thatís a
lot better than tearing up your skin.
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And a flimsy t-shirt is not going to protect
you.
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So I talked about fit.
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Weíve talked about fabric and quality.
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And the last thing would be style.
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So, style is always going to be second when
it comes to work clothing, first function
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than style.
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But style can be a close second and where
you may want to add a bit of, you know, style
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to your wardrobe is consider a hat.
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Now, you may be saying, you know ñ well,
most people just wear baseball caps.
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But does that baseball cap doing actually
a good job protecting you from the sun?
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You know, thereís a reason, if you look at
older foreman, especially ñ actually this
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kind of hits close to home because my grandfather
came over from Mexico and he worked on a ñ
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he picks strawberries, all that stuff, and
he worked his way up to foreman.
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And Iíve seen pictures of him wearing a straw
hat.
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And he wore the hat not because it was stylish,
although I thought it was, but really because
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it was very functional.
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Here was a man out in Southern California,
you know, outside for 14, 16 hours a day,
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he had to wear a hat that protected his head
because in ensure that, you know, he ñ it
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took care of him.
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And so, look for clothing which is maybe ñ
itís going to make me stand out.
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Itís not going to ñ youíre not going to
conform it to everyone else.
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Everyone else go with baseball cap because
theyíre easy to find, because everyone else
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is wearing them.
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But in my opinion, theyíre not very functional
when it comes to a long day of being outside.
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In addition, consider a good bag of chattel,
something that you can carry around your equipment
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in.
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You know, so a chattel, you know, think about
Indiana Jones, he had that, you know ñ and
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saddleback leather makes some great chattel.
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Iím a big fan of that company.
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And these are, you know, theyíve got 100-year
guarantee.
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So, you know, thatís something, yes, youíre
going to spend a pretty penny on.
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Maybe you can afford it as a student, but
once you, you know, ask for a gift, you know,
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put it in the request to the parents or whatever,
or the wife.
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But once you get a bag like this, youíre
going to find that itís going to look better
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overtime.
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And just having that accessory with you versus
everyone else carrying their stuff around
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in cheap backpacks, youíre going to have
a bag which 20 years from now is going to
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look better than when you first got it.
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And so, little things like that are going
to add to your style.
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Pay attention to your footwear, last but not
the least.
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Go with a quality pair of work boots.
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Red Wings, great boots.
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They will really take care of you.
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And if you take care of those boots, theyíre
going to last, you know, ten to twenty years.
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You can get those things already sold.
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So, by quality boots, by quality accessories
ñ and youíre going to have to build this
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stuff up.
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Youíre not going to be able to afford to
do all of this at once.
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But overtime, youíre going to find that youíre
going to have pieces that have history, that
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have character, and thatís how youíre going
to build your style.
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So, I hope this was useful.
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If it was, make sure to like it and visit
me over at Real Men Real Style.
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Iíve got a free 47-page eBook, which I think
youíll enjoy.
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And I will try to talk a little bit more about
rugged style if you guys seem to like it.
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Take care.
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