Perfect Clothing Combo? | Sports Jacket + Jeans = AWESOME | How To Wear Jackets With Denim

Sports jacket with jeans, easily one of myfavorite clothing combinations.

Three reasons why.

Number one, it's flexible.

You can dress it up, you can dress it down.

Depending on the sports jacket depending onthe jeans, you can take off the jacket and simply it's going to look good.

Two, it's a step above average.

It's not like wearing a suit it's not likewearing a tuxedo.

This is something that you know people willlook at it and it's just slightly better.

They don't know why, but you look like theman in charge.

And finally, number three, sports jackets,they build up the shoulders they slim up the waistline they just make you look strongerand more masculine.

In today's video, gents, how to wear a sportsjacket with jeans and look amazing.

Tip number one to wearing a sports jacketwith jeans is to wear the right sports jacket.

So, you don't want to wear a jacket that isactually part of a suit.

If you have one suit and it's navy blue andyou think that I can wear this jacket with my jeans and look great, don't do that becauseyou want to have your suit your go-to suit ready when you need it.

And if you wear them as separates, what canhappen is they can start to discolor, you can stain it and you end up ruining your suit.

Just don't do that, go buy another jacket.

Now, with all clothing, I always talk aboutfit, function, and fabric.

That's your style pyramid.

So, first of the fit, if it doesn't fit you,don't wear it.

You know I'll link to infographics in thedescription where I talk about the fit of jackets, but first pay attention to the shoulders.

It needs to fit you right in the shoulderpoints.

Then, look at the sleeve length, you can actuallyget this adjusted, you can actually get the sleeves even slimmed up.

Look at the jacket length, it can be a littlebit longer if you're a tall man, a little bit shorter if you are shorter than average,but in general you want to make sure that it just barely covers your buttocks.

And then, you want to look at the overallfit in the chest and the torso area.

This can times often be adjusted especiallyif you've nailed it in the shoulders.

Now, there are other things to pay attentionto.

I've talked about the actual function of thejacket and that means the style all those other aspects.

You want to pay attention to proportions,you want to pay attention to, you know, the pockets right here.

These are going to be, you know, if you'vegot a ticket pocket like I do on this, that's going to make it a little bit more casual.

You want to look at the lapels, you want tobe looking for notch lapels.

You can also look for sport lapels.

Those are going to have a little bit of atab over here because they are meant to be closed up.

The point being make sure the look of thejacket is going to be on a sports jacket more sporty more casual.

Now, let's look at the fabric.

Guys, a wide variety.

I highly advice men first look at blues.

So many different variations of blue.

Obviously, I've not a navy blue here.

You can't see it exactly, but it's got a smallbird's eye pattern in this if you were to get up close, but many different variationsout there.

You've probably seen me wear this, it's atan.

It actually has a little bit of white witha dark brown with a lighter brown, but from a distance it looks like a tan.

Now, this gold one which many of you guyshave seen me wear, I love it.

This is actually, again, has a repeating patterns.

When it comes to patterns, normally you don'twant to look for stripes.

Stripes you would see in a suit they usuallymeans business, but you can see sometimes a check, you can see a little bit thickeror heavier of a fabric, that's cool as well.

But, pay attention, again, to the fit, tothe function, to the fabric.

Let's move on to the jeans.

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Tip number two to wearing a sports jacketwith jeans.

Select the right jeans.

That sounds simple, right? Guys, I still see so many men messing thisup and they do this because they wear jeans that are way too light in color or they weardistressed jeans, they wear jeans with holes in them.

Understand that if you're going to wear themwith a sports jacket, they need to actually be a little bit dressier.

So, you want to go with dark well-fitted jeans.

Don't go skinny don't go loose, you want togo with a straight cut.

You want to go maybe with a slim cut.

But, those are, you know, you don't want togo super skinny on that, it just doesn't match the profile.

Now, when it comes to the fabric, again, youwant to go for a heavier weight denim something that usually I prefer the indigo.

I think that's going to match just a widerange, it's going to go with all of the blue various types of sports jackets.

Now, you can easily break it up by bringingin a tan, by bringing in that gold some of those maybe an olive green, that's still goingto look great with the indigo blue.

Now, you can go with grays, you can go witha dark gray you can go with a black you can go even with a maroon.

I've seen that work really well.

You can go with khaki jeans.

All of these I think are going to be thirdor fourth choices after you've got one to two pairs of really good dark blue jeans.

Now, lighter blues, I don't think work aswell, but one thing to avoid with your jeans don't go with anything with a lot of flashing,you know, sequence on it or anything like that.

It just doesn't fit.

Again, with the level of, you know, again,we're not formal, but we definitely aren't casual with this.

This is going to be a little bit more businesscasual and that's what we're shooting for with this combination.

Tip number three.

Bring in the right types of shoes.

So, what you want to avoid are shoes thatare too formal; patent leather, most black formal shoes.

We're talking Balmoral oxfords.

They are a little bit too dressy for this.

In fact, many laced shoes the only ones maybebrogues maybe derbys, you can try to be bring in, but I like to go for loafers I like togo for a monk-strap.

I really like for you to try to bring in adress boot.

I think this is a great time mixing it withthe casualness of the jeans and to bring in something like this just beautiful.

This is the time to wear the dress boot, awide variety of brands out there.

Maybe you want to bring in a Chelsea, youcan do that.

Look at dark browns, look at light browns,look at oxbloods.

Those are going to be your go-to shoes.

Now, some of you guys prefer black.

The issue with black is it's almost too formal.

It's a little bit too harsh of a contrast.

Tip number four.

Wear the right shirts.

So, t-shirts, I think are a little bit toocasual for most people in most situations.

But, maybe if you're the CEO of a tech company,you are in great shape you just simply like this combination and you know how to pullit off, you're confident, go for it.

But I think most guys are going to be servedby bringing in a collar.

I think it just looks better in general.

Now, you can do this and still be casual,bringing in a polo maybe a short sleeve or a long sleeve.

Some guys are against the short sleeve, Ithink in hot weather you can still put it off.

You can go for a casual button-down maybein denim or chambray or a color that, you know, maybe has a little bit of pattern toit.

Be careful though once it has brighter colorsor patterns, it's going to be a lot harder to match with a little bit more of the formalityof the sports jacket.

So, I like to keep it usually a solid or acolor that has a small pattern that can't be seen from a distance and looks like maybeoxford fabric or something like that.

But, at that point we're getting into dressshirts and I think this is where it still works.

Yes, you can wear the dress shirts with jeansby slipping the sports jacket over it.

I think for most guys simply looking at whiteslooking at small repeating patterns, whites with blues light blues medium blues, you caneven bring in some darker colors.

Again, whenever you bring in darker colorsyou bring in a lot of patterns.

Technically those are no longer dress shirts,but they're still called dress shirts.

The point being you've got the color and you'remaking sure at this point that the colors are going to go together.

Now, if you've got some patterns in your jacketdon't worry as long as the patterns don't exactly match up you'll be able to pull itoff.

So, you could have stripes in your shirt,you could have a glen check in your jacke, that is perfectly fine.

In fact, you can wear a pocket square whichbrings me to point number five, we're talking small details and accessories.

Pocket squares, we're talking neckties, youcan pull off both of those.

I really like at this point that you bringin a casual necktie, maybe a knitted maybe a wool or something that has, you know, anon-silk version.

I think that this is the perfect time to bringin those.

Some guys are going to talk about bolos.

Not really my style, but maybe if you're inNew Mexico you could pull it off.

Now, pocket squares.

This is where you should have a lot of fun.

I like small different patterns like paisleys,I like dots.

This is where I have a lot of fun in the pocketsquare, but make sure to wear a pocket square even if it's just a simple square presidentialfold.

Other small accessories to pay attention to;your watch, bracelets, rings, perhaps even your glasses.

Put a little bit of fun with them maybe bringin different styles, bring in different colors.

The great thing about the sports jacket withthe jean combination is that you are dressed slightly above everyone else out there.

So, it's one of those outfits that you canhave fun with other things you can show your creative side, you can bring in color andat the same time you're going to be dressed better and more stylish than the vast majorityof people out there.

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