Dad Teaches How to Tie a Tie & Wear a Suit

today I'm going to show you how to iron a men's dress shirt all my shirts are 100% cotton just because I like the feel but also because of that since they're 100% cotton I can put the iron on the hottest setting and then also I like to use the steam uh setting as well because heat and steam really takes the wrinkles out but be careful and make sure to look at your at the label of your shirt um if if it's polyester or or rayon or got nylon or something in it if you put it on it's hot setting you could really damage your shirt so be careful there and I just have a method because you don't want to have iron just kind of haphazardly and then you end up with maybe a sleeve eated iron right so I just go through this method that way I make sure I get everything okay so I start with the front right I just work my way around okay and I just work from the bottom and work my way up since I got that nice tip on my iron right that's what that's for just kind of work your way up and then we're going to go to the back and I divide the back back into thirs and you'll see why in just a second just work up the 1/3 here working up from the bottom there we go and now so the the middle third I take this and there's a little gather here right and so you'll see in just a second so we're going to kind of iron up into that point just leave that alone for now and then you hold down here and Pull and you make a nice nice little crease in the back kind of going down about halfway down the shirt pivot the shirt again all right now the front left I got to be honest with you I I shot one of these videos and I couldn't believe how bad the ironing board was squeaking so I uh WD40 is a beautiful thing for that I just uh I squirted a little bit of WD40 on the little cross brace there right down below the iron to stop it from squeaking cuz it was pretty irritating so if you have that problem there's a little little another tip for you so okay and then pivot the shirt okay and then we do the collar this is again just the method I've used if you got a better way that's fine if you just need a method this is one that's worked well for me for a long time okay now we want to get the shoulders the other shoulder okay now we got to make sure to get the sleeves want to leave them undone right and it's good to put a nice little crease down the down the sleeve that always looks sharp plus it kind of giv gives a hint that maybe you ironed your shirt right and this shirt it's interesting cuz these shirts some of these shirts will say non-iron meaning you don't need to iron them you can take them right out of the out of the dryer and they're good to go they're not you know I rarely have I found a a shirt that actually doesn't need to be touched up so make sure that you don't believe that the Cuffs are a little bit awkward you just kind of continue down the sleeve and get the get the cuff okay and then you hang it up and you're good to go okay so today I'm going to show you how to tie a tie couple quick hints for you um when you're picking out a tie you want to pick out a tie that has some sort of color that mat that picks up something in your shirt it's just an added classy little touch okay um so we go ahead and flip up our collar take the tie put the fat side down this is an important part because you want at the end you want the tie to come out right right about your waistline looks cool that way if you have it up here that's dorky if your if your Knot's big and you got a short tie dorky you don't want to do that all right just telling you okay so we go ahead and get started here and we take the fat one fat side right and we go around the front come around the back we go down down through the hole right there you want to pay attention to that knot there while you're doing this you want to pay attention to that knot cuz you're you're kind of building the knot as you go along right okay so we're good here then we come across the front we go around the the back and come through and now you still want to pay attention to that knot and then now you're coming through there okay okay see how we got that nice knot now and then there you go we've got a beautiful knot now we take this and we drop this collar down make sure you don't have anything sticking out the back that's also dky okay and then you go ahead and cinch it up and I don't even think you need to button this I don't normally I need leave it a little bit loose so I can actually breathe I bring it on up got a nice clean knot came out to right about my waist perfect looks good and I use a button- down color cuz that always makes it nice and clean at the end too makes it easy all right so today I'm going to show you a few tips for wearing a suit you know at some point in your life you will need to wear a suit you know whether for a job interview or a wedding so this will be good information for you to have so first let's talk about the jacket so the first thing that you want to do is you want to yeah you want to recognize that there's usually two buttons on a jacket okay you you never want to button both those buttons you want to either have the jacket be open like this or you want to button the top button never button both those buttons okay and then now for the cuff this cuff that comes out here you want to have about a half inch cuff that just makes everything pop you don't want to have it where there's no cuff showing and you don't want to have it where there's too much cuff showing just some a little subtle half in or so so that it makes everything kind of come together and everything pops now for your pants see that that's basically how you want your your pants to hit you don't want to have them Bunch up and then you also don't want to have them like this right where they're high waters that might be a a look at some point but again you want to stick with something that will kind of work for you for multiple occasions and then you can you can go off of that but that's basically what you want the shoe to look like okay so as far as purchasing a suit I personally would get one that you can wear to multiple events you know so black Navy dark gray and then the shoes again I would go with black because it goes with anything and then if you want to make sure you have a black belt that matches your black shoes too right and then you can build from there on your wardrobe but I would start with that because you don't want to get a flashy suit that only you can only go to one event right you want to get something that can go to multiple events and then you know as you as you grow your wardrobe you can get some different variations on that but I would stick with something that would work for multiple events now if you need to drive to an event you don't want to wear your jacket in the car make sure you take it off right and then either hang it in the car a lot of cars have hooks that you can hang it in but if you don't have that for some reason just take it and kind of hang it out real nice like that and then just lay it in the back seat cuz it's a little bit difficult to drive with a a suit anyway or a suit jacket but uh and then when you get to the event then just go ahead and take it out the back and then put it back back on right so so that'll help keep you looking sharp because if you don't do that then you'll end up uh you know you'll get wrinkles in your suit that you don't want if you want to try to avoid if at all possible so these simple tips should help you look your best I hope this was helpful for you thanks for watching and God bless you