Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. Today, I'm going to be giving

you seven simple techniques on how to tie a scarf.

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All right, how to tie a scarf, seven simple techniques. I've already covered why a man

should wear a scarf. I've talked about the history of scarves and I've even talked about

different types of scarves and given you seven techniques on how to choose a scarf. So now,

let me give you seven simple ways to tie a scarf, and when I say simple, I do mean simple.

Nothing here is going to be complicated.

There are an infinite number of ways, or maybe not infinite, but there are a very large number

of ways to tie a scarf. I'm not going to get into those complicated ways because one of

the things that I believe with a man is that he needs to keep it simple. He needs to, whenever

he ties his scarf, not even really think about it.

I can tell you I know how to tie a scarf probably like 50 different ways, but I use these simple

techniques 99% of the time. And I do live in an area in which it's cold, so I do this,

but it's something that I don't see why you need to -- you know, there is even a book

out there about a hundred and some odd ways to tie a necktie, but really when it comes

down to it, I use two to three knots on most of my neckties, and the same with scarves.

It doesn’t need to be complicated. At the end of the day, focus on function which is

to keep you warm. And the fashion, that's nice. It's an afterthought for me, but it's

not something I focus on.

Okay, so the first knot that we'll -- it's not really a knot. It's a simple drape, and

this is where you wear the scarf just right over like this and you see this a lot in cities.

You can wear it outside of the overcoat, although I like to wear it underneath the overcoat

or trench coat or whatever type of jacket, and then you're using the actual jacket to

keep it in place.

So how does the drape work? Why do you even use it? Well, the drape is incredibly simple.

It looks good. And even though it doesn’t provide much warmth, it does in a sense because

what it does is it seals up the areas here. Most men actually don't have jackets. This

overcoat is custom. I made it and it fits me very well.

Most men have a lot of room in here and that's what you're looking to fill with the drape,

is fill up this excess room. In addition, the fashion part, it introduces some color.

So you see I'm not wearing a necktie also and we've got color, so that is the drape.

That is the first simple fold.

Now, let's talk about the reverse drape. By the way, in case you're wondering about this

scarf, my friends over at Homme Delicacy, they sent this to me. I'll link to them down

below. They've got an entire great section on men's scarves. This one is made of wool,

very nice. It's got a little bit of the tassels and stuff, but it's still a pretty manly scarf.

All right, so the reverse drape, it's simply where I turn it around here, throw it back,

pretty simple again. This one is worn a little bit more out. Let's say on my overcoat, if

I were to button it up all the way and I wanted to show off a little bit more of the scarf,

then I could do the reverse drape. So here, on my front here, I've got same length and

then I'm reversing over. And depending on the look that you're going for, you may want

to look in the mirror and look at what side is showing.

To me, I never pay attention to that, but some of you guys may want to. At the end of

the day, guys, keep is simple. Again, the reverse drape, this one's nice because it

does a good job of closing it up, but it uses its own weight. The bad part about this is

easily, it can come undone. And so, if you're going to be moving around quite a bit, it's

not as great. You can also put this one under the overcoat a little bit harder because of

what it's going to be laying down on your back, but this one works pretty good.

All right, the overhand, another simple one. We're going to have to make a slight change

though as we're going to pull this so that about three quarters of the length over here,

one quarter the length, you can see the tassel right here, and we're going to be coming over

and under. So this is the overhand, a very simple front knot.

You don't have to get this exactly perfect. In fact, I probably could've gone one-third

and two-thirds. This is a little bit long, but at the end of the day, you see what I'm

doing here, so a very simple front knot. You can tighten this up a bit. Here, it's giving

almost like a tie, so a little bit of a pronounced knot here. I don't like this one as much.

Unless you seal up the jacket, you're not going to fill up a lot of the room here, so

that's the overhand.

Okay, the once around. Again, we're going to have probably about a quarter, three quarters

over here, and I'm going to go once around, so just like it said. I think this one is

a lot nicer than the overhand, very simple. It wraps around. Now, you guys, there may

be some guys out there worried having something around their neck too much. It's not what

they want. I've never heard of anyone having issues with this. I think this is a very warm

knot even here in Wisconsin.

Now, let's say it's really cold. Well, let's talk about the twice around. Let me go ahead

and show you the length of this scarf. This scarf is about 60 inches long. I'm 69 inches

high, so yeah, 60 inches long. I'm going to need something longer for my build to do the

double, the twice around. And so, now I've got this scarf. Again, my friends over at

Homme Delicacy sent me this one as well, very nice. It's actually made out of silk. As you

can see, this one is about 72 inches in length.

So the length of your scarf and also the thickness is going to affect -- so the more complicated

knots, the thicker the scarf, the bigger that knot is going to be, although if you've got

a really long, thin scarf, you can go for more wraps, so that's what we have here. This

is overall a very warm fabric for silk, but its length, again, 72 inches, allows me to

do the twice around.

As you can imagine, I go around once, I go around twice, not exactly perfect, but you

can see that that was close enough and then I can close this up. And even at 72 inches,

that's pretty close. I would probably definitely fully seal my jacket at this point, but it's

enough fabric and it's going to be tighter around the neck. I don't know if I'd wear

this one like this, but for those of you guys, experiment and find which type of scarf knot

works for your body type and for the clothing that you're wearing.

All right. I wanted to bring in -- actually, a little bit too early. Let me go ahead and

I'm going to stick with the 72-inch here because I want to show you guys the fake knot, so

this is the sixth knot, a little bit more complicated, although not really.

What we're going to do is I've got it approximately one-third, two-thirds. And over here on the

two-thirds part, I'm going to tie a little bit of a knot. And so, I've got about -- I'd

probably give myself a good 18 inches to 12 inches right here. Don't tie it very tight

because what we're going to do is bring this right into here, so it looks like you tied

a knot, but really you tied just a simple knot on one end and then you place the other

end right through it, so very basically fake knot. You can tighten this up a bit, a lot

like the overhand.

I'm not a big fan of this one and the reason being is it's more of a fashion knot than

a practical warmth knot. The great thing here, again, like the overhand is that you can loosen

this up and you can wear it looser. I like it whenever it is with a kind of a clunkier,

heavier scarf or one that's -- you want to keep that knot pretty loose and that always

looks a bit better, but those knots right there, when you're doing that, you're getting

away from the function, more fashion-forward, so you need to know what you're doing.

This last one, I'm going to be using a beautiful silk scarf and this is handmade by my friends

over at Brown, Diem. My friend, Christopher Brown, actually made this over in Boston.

He reuses a kimono silk among other things, really one of a kind. Yeah, they are one of

a kind.

Now, this scarf right here, I'm going to use the Parisian knot or the French knot, very

simple knot, but one that you need a longer scarf for. So we can see the length of this

scarf right here. Again, we've got probably 72 inches. So I'm going to fold it exactly

in half and I've got this loop right over here, so bring it around and there we go,

very simple knot, one that actually is pretty warm. So even with this silk scarf, I think

this looks pretty good, not necessarily with this overcoat, but overall the knot and the

color that we allow out works really well.

I could do this with that other -- again, we want to have around the 72-inch scarf when

you do something like this. The Parisian knot is for longer lengths. The great thing about

this, incredibly warm, you've got the double scarves, or basically, it's like two loops

going around and it forms this nice knot, very simple. Even here, right now we've got

-- it's snowing outside. I could wear this and not even button this up and it'll look

good.

All right. Those were seven simple techniques on how to wear a scarf. I'm going to be going

on and doing another video about more complicated ways and I may even break this video out into

each of the knots, but hopefully you find the one that works for you. At the end of

the day, guys, remember to keep it simple. You don't want to be thinking about this.

Simply do the wraparounds. Occasionally pick in, bring in one or two knots that you really

like and this is really all you need. Again, 99.9% of the knots I tie are within these.

This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style. I'll see you in the next video.

Bye-bye.