A fairly regular watcher of your channel, this was the first time I saw this presenter. Although a little unnatural reading from the auto cue/ script he came across as engaging and I'm sure his delivery will improve over time. Being 6'2" with just a 31" inside leg, I found the content of the video useful. Thank you.
Good thing my once-Amish grandmother taught me how to stitch by hand, so I can tailor my own clothing; being shorter with a short reach and a muscular build, I make it work
I’m a tall, slightly above average weight guy (6’2”, 210lbs) and I still go with dress options that make me look slimmer, but not skinny. The skinny look is definitely not a good look on guys like me. Pinstripes work well on me, but so do shorter cut jackets and traditional cut pants that cover the ankles. I usually wear chukka boots with some older pants that I still have that don’t cover my ankles well. This camouflages the fact that my pants are too short, but it gives me a temporary fix until I can get some better fitting pants.
@@gentlemansgazettebringing my attention to alterations! In a previous video (can’t recall the name) raphael mentions the hallmarks of good fitting trousers, and admits he only had 2 perfectly fitting pairs of pants, suit jacket sleeves are always too long for me off the rack and I just sort of accepted it until recently
Hubby is short, nothing here I didn’t already know, exceeept you did make me admit that when his new black pinstripe suit is tailored, we’ll have to fork over the extra $$$ to shorten the coat. Thank you!❤
Extremely useful and practical tips, thanks GG! (And short legs don't necessarily make you a "short king" either! I know a 6 foot tall man with a looong swimmer's torso and markedly short legs in proportion. It makes it hard to dress but a classic silhouette helps a lot - low rise pants are indeed the enemy!)
My legs are short. I have found high sided Chelsea boots or Cowboy boots with stacked heels to be a good alternative. This way you can have your pants shortened while the high boot sides still maintain your proportions.
While you habe a few videos showing what to look for in pants i still find it more difficult to find quality pants in comparison to the shirts and suits I do hope you make a hallmarks of a quality pants video
Once again, I will offer a woman's perspective: The same goes for women. My pet peeve is capri pants! No woman should be caught dead wearing capri pants! Surely they are one of the most unflattering items of clothing a woman can possibly wear. I am 5'2 tall. I have managed to find some very nice pairs of women's trousers in thrift stores. However, even though I have managed to maintain some semblance of my girlish figure at age 65, my waist is still too large to wear the trousers, so I have to have them tailored. Not more than 20 to 30 years ago, women's and men's waistlines were much smaller. Hmmmmm? I wonder why that is? Anyway, it is definitely good to wear trousers that fall at your natural waistline for that slim long-legged elegant look for women, just as it is for men. Great job on this one! I think many people need to be reminded of this regularly. Thank you! Lisa
If I'm wearing a blazer or sport coat longer then it ought be for my height I unbutton it then pull it up slightly to insert my hands into my pants pockets if standing or strolling along. It removes that over long appearance. It works for me.
You didn’t mention the error of breaking color patterns in shoes. Don’t wear brown shoes with a blue suit for example as it breaks the two sections apart. Continuing the color scheme from the leg to the feet has the illusion of a longer leg.
I’m 6’0” but my hips are at the same height as my 5’2” wife’s- i.e. I have a disproportionately tall torso. I find wearing just a plain dress shirt emphasizes how big my torso is, even with high-rise pants, so I often layer up with a vest, cardigan, etc. to have more texture which seems to regulate my proportions a bit better. If I’m going for just a dress shirt, it had better have vertical stripes!
Same situation here. 5'10" chap with a longer torso and shorter legs. Not freakishly so or anything, but enough for the tips in this video to have a noticeable lengthening and balancing effect on me (shorter jacket lengths with more open quarters, town coats rather than full-length overcoats, pant hem properly 'shimmering' on the shoe etc.). My wife also has a slightly longer torso, but yeah same thing really still when we're standing together :). Have you ever tried or considered wearing a grandad / collarless shirt? I have a few of them in various colours and I think they look great, especially under a sport jacket. Kind of somewhere between a tee shirt or polo shirt and then a full-on, collared dress shirt in terms of formality, so if you don't need to wear a tie then I think it could be worth you giving one a shot! I wear them with a button or two undone usually, and even with one or both sides of the packet folded inwards to form a V / half-V shape. If I were to wear it fully-buttoned I think I'd look oddly priestly, but I think it really works this way. You've still got a bit of height from the short, Mandarin sort of collar that these shirts have -- around the sides and back of your neck (although it may not fully cover your jacket collar, if that's a concern -- it being scratchy or you sweating into it) -- but not as much as a more typical dress shirt, so it gives your torso that much-beneficial shortening effect. My next purchase in that vein is going to a striped one as you mention (I think probably brown and white), as I've all solids at the moment: white, blue, butter yellow, and then a dusky pink one (although all cotton / linen blends, so with a nice bit of texture in the fabric to them still). You should be able to pick one up inexpensively if you did fancy giving this a whirl. Something to consider perhaps anyway? Hope that helps, my fellow top-heavy amigo!
Thanks! I’ve thought about those types of collars, but I also have a rather thick neck and big head, and those collars don’t tend to do me any favours either. Any kind of small collars just accentuate how big my head is, so standard collars work best for me!
@@zachpower2192 My pleasure! Just thought it worth sharing the tip, as I heard myself in your comment there and collarless hopefully works well for me (I'm yet to be told that I look ridiculous anyway). Sounds like you've already got things pretty well figured out for your particular frame though. Godspeed, my tall-topped friend!
What a great video! When visting London, I had the chance to purchase an original vinyl of Diamond Lights by Sade. To this day, this was the best purchase on vinyls I have made.
Legitimate question: why did you wear the necklace over the shirt? I understand it’s a layer with the jacket over it, but I find the chain over the shirt tacky and attention seeking. Is this a matter of personal preference? Thanks for your time.
Worrying about seeming taller is for insecure crazy people. Embrace the height God gave you. It ain't changing. Worry about clothing that looks good; forget about changing your body. P.S. high rise pants will bomb with weird socks.
Bad take in my opinion. I don't think there's anything wrong with dressing for your body type and 'workin' with whatcha got'. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're insecure. You can still be accepting of your 'flaws', but then just want to make the most out of yourself and your appearance and how you'll come across to others. Just my two cents, but I do also completely agree with what you're saying here to an extent. Life is generally too short to be worrying about such things.
2:54 With all due respect I have to disagree with you on this point. I've been purposely wearing frock coats/frock coat suits for over 25 years and I must say it appears to me to be a proportionally much better solution than "modern" (sack coat) jackets. When reaching your arms, hands and fingers downwards as if you stand at attention, the end of your finger tips (or a point even a few centimetres below) marks, in my opinion, the perfect height for the line where your jacket/coat should end. As a rule this imaginary line is where your body is lengthwise divided by the golden ratio, which means it is distinctly lower located than it is the case with conventional jackets. And I definitely prefer this aesthetics. By the way, by flipping this propotional division upside down you will find the ideal location for both your trousers' waistband and your waistcoat's hem. 😉 Sorry for my poor English skills! It's not my first language. Best regards from Vienna, Austria! 🙂
This rule doesn't work for very long/short arms. The correct division would be in the middle of your neck and shoes. I do agree though that longer will look better than shorter most of the time.
@@teekue "[...] in the middle of your neck and shoes." For my personal taste that would be too short. I prefer my hem to be approximately in the middle between my crotch and my kneepit. 🙂
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Great informative video for the vertically challenged.
A fairly regular watcher of your channel, this was the first time I saw this presenter. Although a little unnatural reading from the auto cue/ script he came across as engaging and I'm sure his delivery will improve over time.
Being 6'2" with just a 31" inside leg, I found the content of the video useful. Thank you.
Yes, it takes a while to find your voice in front of the camera.
Good thing my once-Amish grandmother taught me how to stitch by hand, so I can tailor my own clothing; being shorter with a short reach and a muscular build, I make it work
Nice tortoise shell glasses
Good eye
Great video and very informative 👍
I’m a tall, slightly above average weight guy (6’2”, 210lbs) and I still go with dress options that make me look slimmer, but not skinny. The skinny look is definitely not a good look on guys like me. Pinstripes work well on me, but so do shorter cut jackets and traditional cut pants that cover the ankles. I usually wear chukka boots with some older pants that I still have that don’t cover my ankles well. This camouflages the fact that my pants are too short, but it gives me a temporary fix until I can get some better fitting pants.
oh wow i was looking forward to a video like this, 5'6 and 135lb guy here
I'm sorry my inkwell brother
Great! What was the most useful part of the video for you?
@@gentlemansgazettebringing my attention to alterations! In a previous video (can’t recall the name) raphael mentions the hallmarks of good fitting trousers, and admits he only had 2 perfectly fitting pairs of pants, suit jacket sleeves are always too long for me off the rack and I just sort of accepted it until recently
Hubby is short, nothing here I didn’t already know, exceeept you did make me admit that when his new black pinstripe suit is tailored, we’ll have to fork over the extra $$$ to shorten the coat. Thank you!❤
Extremely useful and practical tips, thanks GG! (And short legs don't necessarily make you a "short king" either! I know a 6 foot tall man with a looong swimmer's torso and markedly short legs in proportion. It makes it hard to dress but a classic silhouette helps a lot - low rise pants are indeed the enemy!)
My legs are short. I have found high sided Chelsea boots or Cowboy boots with stacked heels to be a good alternative. This way you can have your pants shortened while the high boot sides still maintain your proportions.
Could you make a video on suspenders?
Stay tuned!
Nice work
Please do a video on class rings like you would get when you graduate highschool or college
Finally, some travel-sized gentleman content
😂😂😂
While you habe a few videos showing what to look for in pants i still find it more difficult to find quality pants in comparison to the shirts and suits
I do hope you make a hallmarks of a quality pants video
I’m about 6 foot but I have disproportionately short legs and an oddly long torso. My life is a constant search for good high waisted trousers!
We hear you there!
pov : every short guy watching this like me hahahha
I have long legs though (I do have a very short torso though)
Why do you use "POV" in this context, though? Whose POV? POV at what?
I'm sorry to say that Al Pacino's long, floppy pants upset me on the Oscar's. He looked extra short because of the pants. I like him so I was upset.
Once again, I will offer a woman's perspective:
The same goes for women. My pet peeve is capri pants! No woman should be caught dead wearing capri pants! Surely they are one of the most unflattering items of clothing a woman can possibly wear. I am 5'2 tall. I have managed to find some very nice pairs of women's trousers in thrift stores. However, even though I have managed to maintain some semblance of my girlish figure at age 65, my waist is still too large to wear the trousers, so I have to have them tailored. Not more than 20 to 30 years ago, women's and men's waistlines were much smaller. Hmmmmm? I wonder why that is? Anyway, it is definitely good to wear trousers that fall at your natural waistline for that slim long-legged elegant look for women, just as it is for men.
Great job on this one! I think many people need to be reminded of this regularly.
Thank you!
Lisa
Great insights that show this information is applicable to all - thank you, Lisa!
6:48 So nice, this video verry useful. Thank you so much
i find that using a belt really enhances the proportions and make me look taller!
A good tip! Is that with a higher rise on your trousers?
@@gentlemansgazette yes! i'm 5'3 and i like to tuck my shirt in when i wear a belt
Welcome Ivan! 🎉
If I'm wearing a blazer or sport coat longer then it ought be for my height I unbutton it then pull it up slightly to insert my hands into my pants pockets if standing or strolling along. It removes that over long appearance. It works for me.
You didn’t mention the error of breaking color patterns in shoes. Don’t wear brown shoes with a blue suit for example as it breaks the two sections apart. Continuing the color scheme from the leg to the feet has the illusion of a longer leg.
Very helpful. My question is what is the cut off height?
I’m 6’0” but my hips are at the same height as my 5’2” wife’s- i.e. I have a disproportionately tall torso.
I find wearing just a plain dress shirt emphasizes how big my torso is, even with high-rise pants, so I often layer up with a vest, cardigan, etc. to have more texture which seems to regulate my proportions a bit better. If I’m going for just a dress shirt, it had better have vertical stripes!
Same situation here. 5'10" chap with a longer torso and shorter legs. Not freakishly so or anything, but enough for the tips in this video to have a noticeable lengthening and balancing effect on me (shorter jacket lengths with more open quarters, town coats rather than full-length overcoats, pant hem properly 'shimmering' on the shoe etc.). My wife also has a slightly longer torso, but yeah same thing really still when we're standing together :).
Have you ever tried or considered wearing a grandad / collarless shirt? I have a few of them in various colours and I think they look great, especially under a sport jacket. Kind of somewhere between a tee shirt or polo shirt and then a full-on, collared dress shirt in terms of formality, so if you don't need to wear a tie then I think it could be worth you giving one a shot! I wear them with a button or two undone usually, and even with one or both sides of the packet folded inwards to form a V / half-V shape. If I were to wear it fully-buttoned I think I'd look oddly priestly, but I think it really works this way. You've still got a bit of height from the short, Mandarin sort of collar that these shirts have -- around the sides and back of your neck (although it may not fully cover your jacket collar, if that's a concern -- it being scratchy or you sweating into it) -- but not as much as a more typical dress shirt, so it gives your torso that much-beneficial shortening effect.
My next purchase in that vein is going to a striped one as you mention (I think probably brown and white), as I've all solids at the moment: white, blue, butter yellow, and then a dusky pink one (although all cotton / linen blends, so with a nice bit of texture in the fabric to them still).
You should be able to pick one up inexpensively if you did fancy giving this a whirl. Something to consider perhaps anyway? Hope that helps, my fellow top-heavy amigo!
Thanks! I’ve thought about those types of collars, but I also have a rather thick neck and big head, and those collars don’t tend to do me any favours either. Any kind of small collars just accentuate how big my head is, so standard collars work best for me!
@@zachpower2192 My pleasure! Just thought it worth sharing the tip, as I heard myself in your comment there and collarless hopefully works well for me (I'm yet to be told that I look ridiculous anyway). Sounds like you've already got things pretty well figured out for your particular frame though. Godspeed, my tall-topped friend!
What a great video! When visting London, I had the chance to purchase an original vinyl of Diamond Lights by Sade. To this day, this was the best purchase on vinyls I have made.
Legitimate question: why did you wear the necklace over the shirt? I understand it’s a layer with the jacket over it, but I find the chain over the shirt tacky and attention seeking. Is this a matter of personal preference? Thanks for your time.
En español por favor
I‘m not an English native so my apologies for asking but does he has an accent, and if so which?
Sounds like he has more of a Hispanic accent which is normal in the U.S.
@@pedrorojas0116 ah okay thanks:)
all my 5'4" asian throw your hands uppp
❤️❤️😘
Where is the german pal? Get him back.
Worrying about seeming taller is for insecure crazy people. Embrace the height God gave you. It ain't changing. Worry about clothing that looks good; forget about changing your body.
P.S. high rise pants will bomb with weird socks.
Bad take in my opinion. I don't think there's anything wrong with dressing for your body type and 'workin' with whatcha got'. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're insecure. You can still be accepting of your 'flaws', but then just want to make the most out of yourself and your appearance and how you'll come across to others.
Just my two cents, but I do also completely agree with what you're saying here to an extent. Life is generally too short to be worrying about such things.
Double b with tshirt, black tshirt and black diver with brown loafers, no thanks😂
So perhaps, single breasted suits over double breasted suits too, huh?
They do typically elongate the body more, as a DB jacket has a harder "stop" at the bottom of the jacket
Watching with 4 feet height 😢
2:54 With all due respect I have to disagree with you on this point. I've been purposely wearing frock coats/frock coat suits for over 25 years and I must say it appears to me to be a proportionally much better solution than "modern" (sack coat) jackets.
When reaching your arms, hands and fingers downwards as if you stand at attention, the end of your finger tips (or a point even a few centimetres below) marks, in my opinion, the perfect height for the line where your jacket/coat should end.
As a rule this imaginary line is where your body is lengthwise divided by the golden ratio, which means it is distinctly lower located than it is the case with conventional jackets.
And I definitely prefer this aesthetics.
By the way, by flipping this propotional division upside down you will find the ideal location for both your trousers' waistband and your waistcoat's hem. 😉
Sorry for my poor English skills! It's not my first language.
Best regards from Vienna, Austria! 🙂
This rule doesn't work for very long/short arms. The correct division would be in the middle of your neck and shoes. I do agree though that longer will look better than shorter most of the time.
@@teekue "[...] in the middle of your neck and shoes."
For my personal taste that would be too short. I prefer my hem to be approximately in the middle between my crotch and my kneepit. 🙂
@@tubekulose oh, I didn't know we were talking about tailcoats. 😄
@@teekue Not quite, but it goes in that direction, if you will. 😂
Dude....shave that sparse beard. Only have facial hair if you have a full beard. Spotty beards take away from appearance.