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Wearing A Men's Scarf - The Drape - How To Tie Scarfs - Tying Scarves - Male Scarf Tips
Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. Today, I'm going to be teaching
you how to tie a scarf, in particular, the drape.
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Okay, so let's talk about the drape. The drape is the simplest way to wear a scarf, and let
me just show you really quick. You wear it around like that, pretty simple. You can keep
it even on both sides. You can wear it a little bit to one side, but overall, I like to wear
it under my overcoat and it keeps everything in place so you can adjust it how you like.
The key with the drape and why we use it, one is it's incredibly simple, so you're not
going to forget how to wear it. The other thing about the drape is it fills in the gaps,
so my overcoat fits me very well. It's custom-made, but most men own overcoats that are too large
for them. And if they wear them with a simple dress shirt underneath like I'm doing, then
they're going to have excess room there. And even if they're wearing them with a jacket,
they're going to have an open area in which they're going to want to keep covered.
Again, this overcoat fully seals. Most overcoats don't do that. The problem therefore is that
the drape does a pretty good job of covering the front chest. It doesn’t really cover
the neck and that's where we can bring in the reverse drape and that's where we turn
it and just flip it right over. Now, the problem here is that it's no longer having that excess
coverage on the chest, but that's okay if you can seal up your jacket a bit more and
cover your chest.
Now, let's talk about why a man would want to wear the drape. What's the nice thing about
it besides it being incredibly simple? Well, another great thing about the drape is that
you can wear it with a scarf that is short, so this scarf right here is not even 40 inches
in length, so this scarf is more -- it's made from, it looks like, a cotton fabric. It's
got a very intricate design in it. It's still a masculine color, masculine fabric, but it's
going to be less of a functional scarf and more something that -- I wouldn't necessarily
wear it with this overcoat but if I was wearing a trench coat and I wanted to add a bit of
color, let's say -- I'm not really wearing a necktie. I'm not wearing one right here
-- then wearing this, as you can see, it instantly brings in a flash of color, a flash of contrast,
adjust that.
This one here, it's going to provide a little bit of insulation, but the key is with the
drape, since I'm not wrapping it around my neck, I can go with a shorter scarf. Now,
I've talked about this in my other videos, but a man normally wants to go for a scarf
that is at least 60 inches in length. This one's closer to 72 inches. This is a great
length, perfect length in my opinion for a scarf, but yeah, you want to have at least
60 inches in length, although if you don't, the drape works well.
Another thing with the drape is that even though it doesn’t seem like it's providing
much protection, it does actually if you can wrap it around the back of your neck because
remember, anytime you're exposing skin, you're going to be losing heat right out of there,
so why expose 5%, 4% of your body when you can just cover that up right there especially
in the front neck as well.
The last thing I would say about the drape, let's say the day heats up and you don't want
to be carrying the scarf with you. It's going to look funny thrown in the pocket. The great
thing about the drape is that you could open it up, put it underneath here and it stays
out of the way. You're not having to worry about it. You can reduce the amount of skin
that it's covering and all of a sudden, you've got your scarf out of the way and you can
open up your jacket and you're not going to be sweating all over the place if the day
heats up and you dressed a little bit too warm that morning and you don't have any place
to put your scarf.
Okay, so those are the reasons I would wear the drape. I'd have to admit, I pull the drape
a lot simply because it doesn’t require a lot of thought. I don't even have to look
at a mirror to know how it's looking on me versus some of the other knots that you have
to look at a mirror. So that's the drape, a very simple knot. I talk about a lot more
in other videos. And if you've got something to add or you want to ask me a question, go
ahead and put it in the comments.
I'll see you in the next video. Bye-bye.