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Here's the art of dressing well that I'm pretty sure no fashion influencer has told you before.
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Here's the art of dressing well that I'm pretty sure no fashion influencer has told you before.
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This video isn't designed to give you little cheeky tips on how to combine colors.
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This is the real deal.
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If you understand this, you will go from an absolute newbie to an absolute G
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when it comes to looking good in clothes.
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All right, let's get into it.
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The first thing that you must realize,
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clothes look best when they aren't the point.
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That means when they are not priority number one.
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A lot of these fashion creators,
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fashion influencers, Instagram fashion bros,
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or people even on the runway,
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why do they never look good as this guy?
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Why does this guy never look good as this guy?
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Because the first guy, the clothes are the point.
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The clothes are the main thing that he's trying to say.
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He's like, look, this is the clothes.
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Even the guys on the runway, it's like that.
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The clothes are the main thing.
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But with these other guys,
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the clothes are not the main thing.
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The clothes are the byproduct.
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It's the sidekick.
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It's the second, third, fourth, fifth priority.
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This is also the reason,
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mind you, why skaters often look good and skater culture has influenced fashion so much is because when these guys are skating,
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they're wearing normal clothes, but the skating is the point.
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Whether they wear dickies or whatever shirt or supreme,
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like that's like secondary to the actual skating.
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And that's why the clothes look good because it's in motion.
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It's embedded into life.
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This is one of the biggest things you've got to understand if you want to dress well.
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It's very natural for you to think,
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oh my God, I love fashion.
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I love clothes.
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I'm going to wear this and match it with this.
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And doesn't this look good?
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And the clothes become a point.
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Like you go out thinking you're going to wear this thing.
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It's never going to look good, bro.
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The way to make it look good is for you to live life such that the clothes become priority number two,
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three, four, five, six.
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The lower down the chain, the better.
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Next, clothes look best when they are worn to fuck.
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I don't mean they're worn to make sexual relations.
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I mean, they are worn to the hell and back.
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They've been worn and worn and worn and worn
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and it's almost molded to your body that's when clothes look good
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because that signals that you're not caring
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that much about the clothes the way the fabric loosens
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when you wash it multiple times because you've worn it
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so many times the way you don't care about it
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because you know how it fits you're used to it
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and it just molds to your body and when you go into
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that state where you've just worn it so many times
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so it's almost part of your skin that's really
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when clothes start to look good contrary to that
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if you just ordered your new little t-shirt new little shirt you wore it and It's all stiff.
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It's got these like crease marks because you've just unfolded it.
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And it's super clean.
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And the neckline's all super tight.
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And you're like, look at my fresh like.
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You look like a tool because it's not molded to your body.
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The Japanese have a word for this.
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It's called wabi-sabi.
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The beauty that comes from time passing.
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And it's really, really applicable when it comes to clothes.
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This is why sometimes clothes that have been handed down,
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vintage clothes, secondhand clothes will look good on you because they naturally have been softened up.
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Same with leather stuff, shoes.
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That's not to say never wear new stuff, but understand this thing.
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Even with new things, the more times you wear it,
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the more you will feel at ease in them as the fabric softens and molds to your body.
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Next, it doesn't really come from the clothes themselves.
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Now, wait, of course, clothes matter.
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What you wear does matter,
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but it matters much less than the lifestyle and the experiences that are coming out of you.
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When Thierry Henry, when Paolo Maldini,
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when they wear clothes that are made out of nylon,
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that are kind of like sporty stuff,
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and they got their little sporty thing inside of their sock,
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and they're just walking around, they look good.
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Because the natural way in which they have lived their life as sports people,
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it just fits them.
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It just fits how they've lived,
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what they've thought about, what they thought,
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how they feel, how they move.
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That's why it looks good.
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So there's a certain thing that comes out of one's lifestyle
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and upbringing that will come out in the way that they dress.
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If you've never ever lived in some kind of situation where you listen to like music,
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you were never a big music person.
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And suddenly you dress all in these vintage band tees
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because now that's popping you're not going to have the same kind of effect
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and power and aura as somebody that genuinely has been living
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that life does that make sense to you so what does
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that mean instead you know as
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if you're somebody that's just having fun leaning into different trends
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and learning about different fashion stuff go ahead try different things
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wear the band tees you know you don't have to be
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an expert to wear certain things just go for it
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and experiment but understand that the way you live your life
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and the experiences that you've had that's really what's going to come out
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and it's gonna make you look really good next movement posture personality matters more than fits silhouettes
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and colors now
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if you watch every fashion video of all these fashion influence
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what are they talking about talking about oh it's gonna fit this way the silhouette has to be this way
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and the colors that go with these colors i mean i've made certain videos like
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that myself by the way they're really good
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so you can check them out but you really understand that
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that actually matters less than the way you move the way you speak your personality the way you are
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and also just generally how you carry yourself this matters much more
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and you can see this in your social circle you can see this in celebrities mannequins have no movement
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so they never look as good the runway models they don't actually look
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that good because the point of the runway model is to display the clothes
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so yes they walk confidently yes they show the silhouette
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and all these kind of things but you never look at them
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and you're like wow like amazing i want to look like you don't do
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that but you get that feeling when you I don't know watch a rock star
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when you watch a movie when you see a sports star you get
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that because they have movement they have personality and they have the posture
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that goes with it understand that this actually matters more than exactly what you wear
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and if you have the movement the posture
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and the personality then it's gonna make whatever you're wearing look
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10 times better I want to focus a little bit in on this
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so what does it mean it actually matters how you move
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so let me give you an example
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if you play soccer there's a certain way that guys
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that play football well walk and there's a certain way they touch the ball such
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that
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if you played football you could see in like five to
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ten seconds of them touching the ball like whether they play pretty well
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or not and it's a subtle thing that
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if you didn't play the sport you probably could never tell
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and i'm sure there's a lot of these other tells in lots of different fields whether it's a violin
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or climbing or jiu-jitsu just the way
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that they do the first few things you can tell instantly whether they're good or not.
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Do you get what I'm talking about?
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Don't think about soccer think about whatever it is
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that you're good at you can just tell instantly the same thing is in fashion in just the way
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that you move if you wear really really good silhouette fits
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and colors and you kind of walk with your pulse just caved in
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and you're not wearing the clothes you're kind of just like waddling along you're just not gonna look good
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but if you walk in a way in a certain way
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that we can't just describe into words that's kind of of relaxed
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and it's kind of unbothered that just kind of it flows with the clothes that's
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when it looks good it matters how you move it matters how you walk understand this there's no right
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or wrong formula necessarily because you can have a weird walk
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but still look really good though it depends on the lifestyle it depends on all the context
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but understand
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that these things matter more than the fits the silo as the collar combos next a certain level of time
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and money has to be spent in order for you to
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end up at a place where you dress well nowadays we
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live in a situation where you know you just go to the cheapest place
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that has the same kind of design and you just slap these things together
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and you're like you see one guy you see a couple
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videos you're like i'm gonna get this one from here this one from here combine it
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and i look good i've tried that i never look good like
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that and the reason is because just like any skill fashion
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and dressing well and looking good is actually also a skill don't listen to all these people
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that are like oh my god you know you're born with this style a lot of people
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that dress well or stylish they spend a lot of time
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and money
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and effort into curating how they look they've gone through a
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lot of cringy moments a lot of failed outfits a lot
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of tries a lot of clothes of different quality have been
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draped over their bodies for them to know this kind of
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fit fits me well this kind of cropped length goes well
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this kind of shoe looks good on me they've gone
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and spent the time
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and spent the money don't try to take these shortcuts don't
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try to say i just want to learn these few tricks
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that are going to make me look amazing in the shortest amount of time it's very very tempting
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but just like i always say in my fitness videos to get really good at something it takes time
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and it's the same thing with dressing well
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so make mistakes spend a bit of money and make those failed purchases
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that you'd never end up wearing overpay for that t-shirt
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and realize that it's better or that it wasn't better all of
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that time and effort and money
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that you spend in this field is gonna make you dress better patience
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and time passing in your own love for this area is
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what's missing is what you need to become a better dressed right
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so don't get this to mean that like i've kind of gone through this stage
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and reached this point where i'm fully wide like look at
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me i'm just dressed in some most basic shirt right
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so you know but these are some of the lessons
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that i'm learning as i'm going next and
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if you realize why homeless people babies
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and old people look really good maybe homeless people some people will disagree with me
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but if you look at babies sometimes
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when babies are dressed they look really good right
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and then like super old people sometimes like korean grandpas
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or some of these grandpas they look really good the reason for this is
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because they have let go they have just let go of
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the need to look good in korea we call this
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which literally means to lay down to put down to put
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down this stick that's up your ass where you're trying to look good
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and cool and fashionable and stylish babies don't know any better
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so they don't have that old people are like well it was all bullshit anyway
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so they've let it down
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and homeless people i mean they got nothing to give a shit about
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so they've let it down
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so then the clothes just look good this is one of the secrets
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that you must understand in order to dress well i can't remember where i heard this
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but i think it's some maybe a coco chanel said this
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or somebody said this that before you leave the house leave one item what
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that literally means is
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when you were getting dressed in the mirror you probably got a little bit too excited
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and put on like too many things like you wore the hat
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and the sunglasses and the ring like i'll do
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that you know like like a fashion newbie will do
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that right we'll do one too many things
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because you're like this is cool and then this is cool
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and this is fucking cool it's not when they say take one
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and just leave it that's innately taking into the fact
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that you probably overdid it you probably in your attempt in
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your ego in your subtle little thing to be approved
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and validated by other people and them looking at you
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and thinking you're cool you've chosen that extra little thing
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and then you've gone over the top you've given away the rabbit all right leave
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that thing just lay it down it's showing
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that you want to let go of this feeling of constantly
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trying to impress other people now in some senses fashion dressing
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well why do we dress in these different colors it wouldn't
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make sense on a desert island just by yourself you wouldn't wear shirts
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and ties we do respect the fact
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that in some sense it is for the other person it is to be looked at
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But there is this sense in which when you lay things down,
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when you let it go,
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you're just going to look much, much better.
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Next, experience and interest is the only way to get good at it.
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Just like anything.
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If you have interest in dressing well and you're constantly trying things
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and learning new things and then failing and getting random outfits that don't work,
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you're still loving it, right?
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There's an innocence in your pursuit of this thing called style
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and fashion you just go at it like a child
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that loves a sport might
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or somebody who just gets into their new favorite hobby might get interested in it
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and over time you gather experience
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and that's how you actually become better dressed for you to
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actually dress well you got to go through a lot of
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failure it's an absolute necessity you got to go through a
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lot of cringe you got to go through a lot of failed outfits
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and a lot of clothes have to have gone on
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and off your body for you to eventually reach a point where you actually know what looks good for you
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and it's constantly changing don't take this tough too seriously i
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just could be getting a bunch of requests to make a fashion video
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so here's a good good old attempt at it let me know
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if you liked it or if you want to see more
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and by the way if you want to build a body
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that will make all clothes look good there are certain bodies
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that if you're lean if you're aesthetic it's going to make clothes look two times better than
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if you were fat and chubby that's just the raw hard truth
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if you're not offended by that then you can check out my training program below aesthetic body blueprint,
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which is the simplest, easiest,
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laziest way to build a body that looks good in clothes.
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You'll be surprised at how easy it is.
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And if you're just like,
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you know what, do this whole thing with me,
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just teach me how to do it.
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I want to work directly with you and you every week,
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then you can apply for my coaching program.
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I'll show you how to install my training and diet system into your life.
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That's going to make you look good without clothes, but also with clothes.
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That said, I'll wrap it up.
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See you in the next video.
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Bye.
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