Auto news on Youtube Jul 28 2018

I know, I know. Look pretty silly. I see it too. My pants are a little bit too short

today. There's very few things that feel more awkward

than pants that are too short. Reminds me, a few years ago, I was at a friend's

wedding, a co-worker's of mine wedding. (Shout out to Justin Thomas). And a few days

before the wedding I had a new pair of pants come in. They were a little bit short.

No problem. I brought them to my tailor shop to have

them lengthened an inch. Then the day of the wedding, I went by the tailor shop, picked

them up, went to the hotel, changed and realized that the tailor shop had

accidently shortened them an inch. So now they were two inches too short. I can

feel you cringing for me. So, that's not good. Pants that are too short, very awkward

feeling. Pants that are too long, they start to bunch up,

look baggy, not a great look as well. So, how long should your pants be? Well, the

answer is, it depends. Not a very satisfactory answer, right? Well,

it does. It depends on the trimness of your pants. This is what I want to talk about

today. I'm going to show you some examples of pants that are too long and too

short. So you know how to get your pants fitting correctly. So I put on a pair of

pants, they're not my favorite pair of pants. They're a little bit fuller

cut than I prefer. A little bit looser through the leg. The bottom's a little bit looser. They're fine. And what we

did here is, as you can tell, the back of the pant is laying cleanly and the front of the pant is

getting a little bit of a break. So that's what we want. If they're any longer than

this, they'll start to puddle at the bottom, and be kind of sloppy looking. At the same

time, if they were much shorter than this, they're just going to swish around there, which we

don't want either. So next time I'm going to put on a pair of pants I like the fit of a

lot more, a lot more trim feeling, and you'll see the

difference. All right, so I put on a pair of pants that are a little bit trimmer. This is

more the way I like my pants to fit nowadays. They're more narrow through the

leg, the pant bottom is a little bit more narrow and, as you can see, the pants are

a little bit shorter. So they're still laying cleanly along the back of the pant,

the front is still getting a little bit of a break, and that's the way they

should look. So if they're much longer than this, if these were the same length as my

other pair of pants that I just had on, they would be puddling all at the bottom and not

look good. So, fortunately now, if you have some pants in your closet that don't fit

quite right, it's a really easy thing to change. You can bring it to a tailor shop,

just make sure you wear them, and have a tailor mark them exactly where you want

them lengthened or shortened. You know it's 15 or 30 bucks. It's real easy. And,

make sure you wear them there, because it matters how it looks when you're

standing, like you're giving a presentation. Or having your picture

taken. Something like that. That's what matters. That's when we want it to look

really sharp. If you're sitting down, with your legs crossed, and the pants come up

part way up your leg, who cares? If it bothers you that you can see a little bit of your

skin there, wear over the calf socks and you'll be good to go. What we don't want to do is

sacrifice looking good when you're doing something important, like giving your

presentation, if you're doing something not so important, like driving or sitting behind

your desk. So that's about it. You know this is a super easy thing to get just right.

And it just gives you the impression, gives you the look of, that you're put together, that

you care about the details and that's really a look that's flattering on all of us.