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Should A Man Iron A Crease In His Jeans How Long Should Jeans Fit Denim Jean Style Tips
Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. Today, we're going to be talking
about jeans and should they have a center crease and how long should they be.
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The question that came in, pretty simple, how long should my jeans be, Antonio, and
do you put a center crease in the legs? Thank you very much." Well, that's a question that
takes me back and it takes me back to when I was in high school. We'd go to football
practice in the morning and after football practice, everyone's getting on their clothes
for school.
I grew up in West Texas. We call them the kickers, the cowboys, and these were -- literally
in high school, they rode bulls. I had a good friend and I remember he had to miss -- he
was one of our best linebackers and he basically came to school with his mouth wired shut two
days before a game because he got stomped on by a bull. It was just a big deal because
he couldn't play in the football game, and this is West Texas. You better be playing
the football game.
We had a broom handle in the locker room and the reason the broom handle was there was
these guys had so much starch and their jeans were so pressed -- these are Wranglers -- that
they would have to throw the broom handle in there to open up the jeans before they
could get those on because that was the kicker or the Western look, is to have those pressed,
creased, starched jeans. This is back in the mid '90s. I don't know if it's the same anymore,
but they would have those shirts as well, those western shirts, and I think Garth Brooks
was big.
I remember even people wearing the black over here, black over there, the white -- hey,
they had more style than me. If you would've seen my style back then, it's nothing like
this. In any case, that's the only place I've ever seen people get away and actually look
decent for what they're going for, creased jeans. Otherwise, you don't want to go creased
jeans, never.
Nowadays, jeans are casual. You don't want to have a center line crease, so let's throw
it out there. Unless you are a cowboy growing up in the 1990s or stuck in the 1990s -- and
you can leave a comment down below, guys. I am not an expert. I haven't been back to
West Texas for a while, so maybe people are still doing this, but I don't know. I love
to hear on the comments if there's anyone out there creasing their jeans. I personally
don't think that you need to be doing it.
Now, let's talk quickly about the length of your jeans. It depends on what you're going
to wear with them. Often, that's in the description of the jeans. If you're going to be wearing
boots, boots have a heel whether they'd be work boots, Western boots, or any other type
of boot out there. You could expect to be a little bit higher up off the ground. Because
of that, you want a longer jean, but how can you determine this when you're purchasing
them and you don't necessarily have the shoes you're going to wear?
Well, you need to understand when you put the jeans on at the store, you don't want
to have shoes on. If you're going to be wearing these jeans, let's say they're a low-rise
cut or they're slim or they're just a regular cut and you're going to be wearing these with
shoes, then in that case, you're not going to need much height on them. You want to make
sure when you don't have your shoes on that the back of the jean -- let me just use this
example right here.
The back right here is just touching your heel. It can go a little bit beyond because
you can actually get this adjusted, very easy to do. A lot of places, if you ask them especially
if they are a jean specialty store, you can ask them to hem the jeans and they will actually
make them a little bit shorter, but you can never make them longer. So make sure that
you can at least get the jean under the back of your heel just a bit.
Now, if it's a boot cut, you want that bit to be a little bit more. You want it to be,
I would say, at least an inch and a half to two inches so you're going to be able to step
on those jeans quite a bit because if you're wearing boots, you're going to be up off the
ground a bit more and I like to see a little bit of bunching at the bottom if you're wearing
boots. It doesn’t have to be a whole lot. Again, depending on your taste, you can always
bring them up, but remember, you can never bring jeans down. They just don't leave that
excess material in the way it’s usually cut there at the bottom.
By the way, in case you're wondering, I'm going to be doing a really cool series on
jeans here soon. I'm working with my friends over at Brown, Deim. Christopher, he's launched
a company. And so, this is going to be a lot of fun. He uses the same denim fabric, Samurai
Jeans, a high-quality Japanese denim basically. These jeans are really interesting because
the lining here around the pocket, around the J pocket here, which I've talked about
in a video awhile back, he actually uses eel.
The rivets, he uses recycled 9 mil casing along with 50 cal casing, things I've never
seen he uses. On the back belt loop, he uses a stingray, so little things like this really
set his denim apart and this is higher end denim. This is stuff that you can expect to
spend a few hundred dollars for. I'm not going to get into the price of denim here, but what
I am saying, guys, is pay attention to those small details especially the length. Remember,
you can always shorten, you can never lengthen, and avoid creases unless, like you said, you're
a cowboy growing up in the 1990s. Hey, I give you guys a lot of room.
Take care. I will see you guys in the next video. Bye-bye.