How to Tuck a Shirt Tutorial | Front Tuck How to Tuck in your Shirt, Sweater + Blouse | Miss Louie

What's up you guys! Welcome to the very first episode of a brand new series this year that I'm calling the How To Series. This was 100% based on your guys' feedback and recommendation to me, so I am forever grateful. I hope you find this series helpful. We are going to be covering tutorials and how to guides on just some of your most commonly asked fashion questions. Today's episode, it was no doubt in my mind we had to tackle the most commonly asked question, which is how I tuck in my shirts. I'm going to provide you with step-by-step instruction along with multiple examples. And I would be so grateful if you guys gave me a thumbs up to let me know that you are finding this series helpful and enjoyable. And then also let me know down below in the comments what you guys want to see next. This is going to be purely driven on what you guys would love to see from me, so I'm so excited to hear your feedback. I love you so much and let's get started. Alright guys, let's start off with the mischievous button-down shirt. This is one of the most common shirts that I always tuck no matter what. And we're going to start off with the front tuck, so only the front of the shirt in the pants. Step 1, be sure to button up your shirt from the bottom button all the way up to your desired neckline. That way it avoids the shirt from splitting open at the bottom and making weird folds whenever you're tucking your shirt into your pants. Step 2, this is very crucial, you want to align the center of your shirt to the center of your pants. Make like an invisible target line so that whenever you're tucking the shirt in, the placket of the shirt, which is where all the buttons lie, hits the fly of your trousers or your jeans. Anchoring the centers will create a solid foundation and avoid a twisted, swirly shirt. Step 3, grab each side of that center mark, it's easy with the button down because you got that visual placket with the buttons, and then you're going to inch your fingers towards the edge of the shirt and slowly tuck the center of the shirt into the center of the pants. Use your zipper or your button fly as your bullseye target. Step 4, I call this the smooth step, you're going to take your hands and make it very flat, almost like spatulas, and then tuck in the left and the right hand side of that center point while also smoothing the fabric out towards each side of the hips. The goal is to make the area in between your hip bones as smooth as possible. Once you have that clean slate, then you can use your fingers and untuck and drape the shirt over the waistband while doing little micro tugs to get that perfect length for you and your body shape. This will become so second nature, you guys, through practice, I promise. I know exactly the amount of fabric to tuck out every time I do it because I do it so often through practice, okay? Let's continue with more examples so it gets more solidified in your minds. Let's say the front tuck is a little bit too disheveled for you and you want to tuck those tails in. We can do the same philosophy of steps. Take the center of the shirt and tuck it into the center of the back of your pants. You can use your butt crack as a guideline. Using my hands as flat paddles, I'm tucking and smearing and smoothing out any clumps towards the sides of my hips and then draping that fabric over once I have that smooth canvas. Now the one thing that I don't do is I don't tuck in the sides. Once I tuck in my front and back tails, I literally just tuck that fabric into itself and it stays put. I know it's strange, but it's honestly what I do. I never tuck in those one inch sections on the sides into the waistband. I just keep it loose. I find that whenever I tuck it in, it puckers really weird. It makes me look extra wide and it creates like this souffle top. And momma don't want that. So I just gently tuck the fabric to hide that gap and for the overall shape, I untuck more of the fabric towards my hips to create more of like an upside down U shape. I find it more elegant and slimming and it doesn't cut your torso so harshly in half with a straight line. And lastly, for an added bonus tuck style in this button down category, you can also try a half tuck. Unbutton the last two buttons of your button down shirt and go ahead and just tuck in one side of the shirt into the waistband. Smooth the fabric out towards your hips and then slowly untuck and tug the shirt until it's your desired length in the front. This is a really just like disheveled, I rolled up like this type of look. You got the nice shirt tails in the back. And it's just something a little different if you want to experience it. Alright, now that you guys know the basics, let's practice on a different article of clothing. Let's just do the basic t-shirt. I've got a t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants here. Draw that invisible line from the neckline down the center of the shirt into the center of the pants waistband. Grab each side of that center line and then tuck the edge of the t-shirt into the pants in between your underwear and the pants itself. Oh yeah, by the way, don't tuck it into your underwear. Once you guys do that, use your hand paddles to smooth out all the clumps and the lumps and then slowly untuck and fold over the excess over the waistband. If you guys are just starting out and trying to figure out what your ideal length is, you can tuck the entire shirt in and then just slowly do micro increments until you get to that sweet spot. So don't worry, I will come second nature with practice. For me, I can just do it, you know, without thinking at this point. Then third example I wanted to show you guys real quickly is sweaters. I get a lot of questions on this, especially during the fall and winter time. You guys, I use the same methodology as the rest of this video. I only do front tucks for sweaters just because it is so bulky. You anchor the centers, smooth out the sides to each hip bone, and then gently drape over for that nice dramatic upside down U shape. It helps visually reduce the bulk of the sweater while elongating your legs at the same time. And last but not least, our final technique to cover today. I originally was not going to put this in the video, but I realized that you guys probably need a full tuck example if you need full immersion of the shirt within your bottoms. A good example would be this high-waisted pencil skirt. Tuck the entirety of the shirt within the skirt. You can also reach your hands from under the skirt and really yank that shirt nice and evenly and taut. Once the shirt is secure, I do the same smoothing effect. I have my hand spatulas and I smooth the back out towards the sides and I also do the same thing in the front. If I have any bunching of material, I prefer it to be hidden underneath my arms versus being clumpy in the front and the back. Alright, now the untucking and draping begins. So the fastest way to untuck everything evenly on all 360 sides is just lift your arms up and slowly yank the fabric out from the waistband. From there, you just do those little micro-adjustments until you get your desired hemline. So for an example, I noticed that the right side was more tucked in than the other, so I just gently yanked that out and I have a perfectly straight line in the front. Since I already smoothed out those clumps in the waistband before I untucked, you can see that it's a smooth draping of the blouse on the front and the back. And for the second full tuck example, I wanted to show you something that's popular, at least for menswear, which is the military tuck. You're going to do the same thing, you're going to tuck the entirety of the shirt into your pants. I like to start in the back center and work my way around to the front. I also recommend you getting intimate and yanking the bottom of the shirt really taut inside the pants, therefore eliminating that weird horizontal shirtline that you can get. We're looking for no shirt clumps within the pants. Alright, so then button up your trousers. If you do have that extra button on the side of your metal clasp, always be sure to secure it. I think it's traditionally called a French fly and it's meant to keep your trousers and slacks flat while also securing the waistband. So to sum up this tucking method, you're going to basically smooth out the front and the back of the shirt so that all of the excess fabric is built up on the sides underneath your armpits. You're then going to take all that excess fabric and you're going to pull it taut towards the front and then you're going to fold it over back onto itself and then secure it flat with the waistband of your pants. You're basically rolling up all that fabric into like a little taquito and sealing it off so that all of the excess billowy fabric is hidden inside itself underneath your armpits. This is another good way to do if you have like an oversized shirt. I really like the fact that it reduces the volume by so much and creates a very nice slimming effect from the front profile. Also looks so much less frumpy whenever you layer on your blazer because it looks like a nice slim-fitting shirt underneath and it really shows off the waistband of your trousers. Alright guys, that does it for our very first how-to video! What did you guys think? Did you guys like it? Give me a thumbs up if you found it helpful and please let me know down below in the comments what you guys want to see in our next episode! Again, I've also included my favorite basic t-shirts and button-down shirts in case you guys are interested down below in that description bar and I just want to say you guys are the bomb! I could not have done this without you and your support and your feedback and watching my videos and my work. I love you guys beyond anything and I hope you guys are having an incredible, blessed day out there. I love y'all and I'll see you very soon. Bye! Mwah!