collared shirt tucked into jeans: classic or don't?

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i don't see this much lately--the hipsters seem to be un-tucking their shirts.

however i think this can work as long as the jeans don't sit to high on the waist.

what do you think?

most of my shirts are kind of long to un-tuck without looking like a schlep or a hippie.

this is w/r/t men.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i never ever EVER tuck in my shirts, except when i'm wearing a suit, so don't.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, so "don't".

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but all my shirts are too long! i hate that look.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a very big issue in my life.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

why would you want to tuck your shirt in?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also, there are plenty of tailors/seamstresses around that would happily fix your shirts if they're too long.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, yeah, some people look fucking awful tucking their shirts into jeans. i see these people on the trains all the time. i don't want to be one of them.

on the other hand, people wearing really really long shirts un-tucked into their pants look silly too, i think.

i have a hard time finding shirts of the right length. like a *really* hard time. i think that's cause i've gotten kind of thick.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean how far down should an un-tucked shirt go? i think just a few inches below the belt. however some of my shirts would sink nearly a foot below the belt. i'd look like some kind of schleppy hippie.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think i can afford to tailor all the shirts i have (esp since i paid less than $3 for half of them)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

just get a pair of siccors, or shirts that fit you

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

white oxford shirts tucked into jeans is classic. tucking other shirts into well-fitting jeans, with a belt, is kind of a fashion forward move right about now, but only the savviest hipsters have figured it out. it also looks better.

― dan (dan), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

aja did you read the 400 posts where i mentioned having a hard time finding shirts that fit me?

scissors: very very bad idea.

well fitting jeans? like sort of snug? hm.

i'm hopeless.

(of COURSE i'd use a belt. i never go out without a belt. ever.)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

scissors. oh!

Excusse me, I'm really worried about my Religion homework, and I actually need some scissors

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

buy straight-cut shirts if you can find 'em

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

aja did you read the 400 posts where i mentioned having a hard time finding shirts that fit me?

uhh, no. When was this?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i am having MAJOR belt issues lately! i used to be like amateurist but i developed some kind of metal allergy and now all belts really irritate me and my pants fall down all the time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i think un-tucked shirts look stupid if they are hanging down below your ass. that's my problem. i need shirts that, when not tucked in, only go down a few inches (like 3?) below the waist. maybe i will get my shirts tailored.

i have one black shirt that fits well un-tucked but i don't really like wearing black shirts. (fascist iconography aside.)

i used to be like amateurist but i developed some kind of metal allergy and now all belts really irritate me and my pants fall down all the time!

sounds like some kind of porn comedy

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

why is finding clothes so fucking difficult?????????????????????????

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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i am having MAJOR belt issues lately! i used to be like amateurist but i developed some kind of metal allergy and now all belts really irritate me and my pants fall down all the time!
-- s1ocki (slytus...), September 25th, 2004 1:20 PM.

use suspenders, or a rope

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm puzzled by this untucked shirts fad, too. it looks sloppy. but maybe i'm turning into a grumpy old fart.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

never tuck your shirt in. get them tailored.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ironic belt-buckle = the new trucker hat?

amateur!st - most dept. stores have a tailor that will properly measure you for your shirt size for free.

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm telling you--the untucked thing is going to lose steam quickly.

― dan (dan), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

suspenders would be the same problem, but no kidding i am seriously considering using a rope, like some ragamuffin kid from lil abner or something

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

use an extension cord instead of a rope.

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

the only shirts i seem to find that are the right lenth are really tiny in the chest and look stupid on me (i.e. like i'm trying to be some emaciated hipster, which i'm NOT).

i think i have a good basic fashion sense but i can never, ever find the right clothes. mostly because i have no money at all and am forced to shop at goodwill or the cheaper chain stores.

i think i might just wear a sweater today. though even my sweater is kind of wrong.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

JUST a sweater?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my!

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean jeans and a sweater over a t-shirt, not a collared shirt and a jacket.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Slutsky, you should just tuck your singlet in under your shirt. That way the belt buckle won't touch your skin.

― antexit (antexit), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

sweater tucked into sweatpants: classic or classy?

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that is also my plan! but when i wear polo shirts that is not an option. (hi!) (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

then get your favorite shirts altered, amateurist. there's nothing better than wearing stuff that fits you right, even if its a little extra cash. i know this because i can never find anything that fits my body right, so i wind up making a lot of my own clothes.

im not entirely crazy about tucked in stuff but if it looks good on someone, i am all for it. i just happen to see a lot of collegiate douchebags sporting this style, hence my aversion.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i tuck my shirts in.
i dont fucking care and people say i look nice, so there.

tuck it in without shame.

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

what extra cash? $10 is more than i can afford right now. :-(

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

its really not that expensive for alterations. ive had shirts altered for around 10$.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

polo shirts under shirts: c or d?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah do it - especially if your shirts have a nice fit, it only looks bad if the shirt is kinda bouffy and ballons out above the belt. the fact that some people think it's a no-go is exactly the reason to do it.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm so confused.

which one of you has good taste?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i do.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

me too.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

jed, todd, and i have good taste.

― dan (dan), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i have great taste, learned only after years of committing many fashion crimes.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

commiting fashion crimes IS good taste anyway. withness my cock and sandal combo.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and I think jed_ is otm in that tucking in your shirt can look v. nice if the shirt is a real nice fit & also yr quite slim to six-packed but otherwise I think it looks a bit bad, routinely. I wd never tuck bt by the same token, as you're saying amst, I wd never wear a shirt untucked tht was too long, it looks kinda awful. I find most shirts tht are to fit my neck size (15.5) are awful untucked. below that (14.5 / 15) the lengths of the shirts are ok. wear with a plain t-shirt underneath?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

'cock and sandal combo.'

!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Always tuck in a collared shirt. Always. Or else you look like a complete fucking slob. And who wants that?

The idea of spending money to get a dress shirt tailored specifically so you can leave it untucked ... well, that's completely asinine. The things are long because they're MEANT to be tucked in.

(Of course, I assume we're talking about a button-down type dress shirt, not all shirts with collars like polo/golf shirts and the like)

― Reed Moore (diamond), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread needs pictures.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god!

pics of my cock and sandal combo on the way. I'm so red right now.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 98 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I agree with you, though.

I'm: convinced.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it when you tuck in a really long shirt and it's spacious enough down there to form a cradle for your sac. i've never worn a unitard, but i imagine that the sensation is very similar

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I have been tucking lots more lately! It is a new exciting stuffvista, for sure. It does look better.

Next question: Where in the UK do I get cool belts? I have a really hard time finding belts that fit, mostly I need to make holes deep into the material, 'cos I'm all small-waisted like.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 18 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My button-up shirts always blouse when I tuck them in -- I have fairly broad shoulders and a narrow-ish waist, and since most American dress shirts are cut straight as hell with no taper, I poof out. The only shirts I've been able to find locally that work are Banana Republic "fitted" (or something) dress shirts, but they're like $70 apiece, and I definitely don't wear dress shirts nearly enough to justify spending that kind of dough.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Any advice, btw? Anyone know of other fitted-style tapering dress shirts that are a bit more modestly priced?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Brooks Brothers are around 60 and should fit your type.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Gravel, try Sand.

― B.A.R.M.S. E.N.D.O.R.S.E.S. T.U.C.K.I.N.G. (Barima), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

you can get holes added to belts in belt shops.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What's Sand, B?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I'm tucking, I'm tucking!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

recently i have found myself tucking, more.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.style.com/slideshows/fashionshows/S2005MEN/CKMEN/RUNWAY/00012f.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The un-tucked look is a fad that's going to end soon. Esp. the diagonal stripes, short shirt tail made-to-be-left-out shirts. It's always looked stupid unless you were a model or a (young) movie star--and that's why it's not going to last.

Ordinary guys--read FAT guys with beer bellies--are going to start untucking en masse. "Hey, look, it's the style, and it makes me look thinner!" Except that it doesn't. Hipsters and movie stars will not want to wear the look after it's fully exported to the 4,000 calorie per day crowd and they'll move on to something else that only looks good on 6'2"-165 lbs.-18 year olds.

Of course, everything looks good on them!

― Th9in, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

this makes you look like jerry seinfeld

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

mostly because i have no money at all and am forced to shop at goodwill or the cheaper chain stores.

The reason I go to goodwill is to find expensive shirts for nothing. Aquascutum, Polo, Brooks, made-to-order. Find a better goodwill, obv.

― Th9in, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tucking in!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If I tucked, I'd have to shave, too. No deal.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Untuck fitted shirts
Tuck unfitted shirts

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

So basically:

Fitted >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unfitted

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

if you tuck unfitted shirts it blouses out

but I agree with your second statement

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

if you tuck unfitted shirts it blouses out

Yeah, but if you don't tuck a shirt that's too big for you, you look much worse than if you're wearing a blouse. You get that whole "big fat guy" thing happening.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the lesson is to wear shirts that fit

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kyle, wear a pleated shirt! KIDDING!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this makes you look like jerry seinfeld

-- ryan (augustuscaesar2...), March 24th, 2005 11:01 AM.

otm

― amon (eman), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if I've answered this Q before, but PLEASE. DON'T. EVER. TUCK.

UNTUCK. THAT MOTHERFUCKING SHIT.

OR I WILL.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Promise?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been known to go up to people in public and untuck their shirts for them (albeit only when v. drunk). I once approached a boy at a bar and said "You are quite cute. Why in god's name have you tucked your shirt in? You could go up like 5 notches in as many seconds."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot about this thread.

i think my solution to this problem, once i have a little more cash, is to wear suits all the time. you can't knock a suit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

btw roxy, if men never tucked in shirts, then women (or other men*) wouldn't have the pleasure of pulling them out!

*sorry, i'm sensitive to tracer hand having outed me as heteronormative yesterday.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't tuck them in if it looks like your pants are riding too high up above your waist. It's dudly.

I usually don't tuck in my shirts. Unless I have to work.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"dudly" is surely the adjective of the age

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.classicphotos.com/f-440.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I tuck out of habit, even in jeans, fuck it. And, now, having read roxy's comment, I'm thinking that rampant tucking might also be a good conversation starter (cf. "Are you untucking my shirt or are you just happy to see me?") to employ in a mixer / cotillion situation.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Tucking, like clothing, is optional.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudley! My original celebrity dreamdate. And may I add that he's looking smashing in a tucked shirt -- in suits = ok.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i've taken to not only tucking shirt into pants but also into the boxers, which are then pulled about inch and a half above the pants waistline. it's cool, feel free to bite my style nob.

― amon (eman), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

*bites it*

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It really depends on the person. Some people look really good with the shirt tucked in, other end up looking like Seinfeld.

― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

some people might look more like seinfeld with their shirts untucked, so you never know. (hint: it's the shoes)

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that a lot of men's trousers have a lower-than-before rise, the tucking is a lot more, umm, sightly. It’s really all about that shortened rise. And a well-sized shirt, obviously. Sometimes a flat stomach helps, too.

I've decided this looks best when the contrast between jeans and shirt is profound -- ultra-ratty jeans, basically, paired with an obviously-classy and maybe even somewhat silky shirt. (NB ultra-ratty does not = Diesel-bleach disasters.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

if i could afford dior or helmut lang i'd tuck. but otherwise, no.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

if you tuck unfitted shirts it blouses out
but I agree with your second statement

-- kyle (akmonda...), March 24th, 2005 10:07 AM. (akmonday)

In a coincidental turn of events, I just ran into Mr. and Mrs. (Anthony) Kyle Monday downtown and they gave me the thumbs-up on the untuck. They both looked ravishing as usual.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I have untucked for the night.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(NB ultra-ratty does not = Diesel-bleach disasters.)

OTM. $20 Levis are what you're looking for. And a $150 shirt that no one will ever know that you didn't pay $150 for.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this only makes you look like jerry if yr shirt is blousy rather than fitted, btw.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

roxymuzak - naughty!!

what kind of shoes does Seinfeld have again? they're like white tennis shoes iirc.

― amon (eman), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i think half of the reason i can't watch that shoe is because of the leads' (profound lack of) fashion sense

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

tee hee i mean show

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

something else that only looks good on 6'2"-165 lbs.-18 year olds.

Of course, everything looks good on them!

Yes, I rock! Except add an inch and drop 30 pounds of course. My metabolism's through the roof. I can eat a whole pizza and lose a pound twelve hours later.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

just dont wear a shirt

case closed

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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