Tucking your shirt in - C/D?

This has everything to do with your build and musculature and where your waist is and stuff like that.

Never knew it was that complex. Elaborate.

Not sure how to elaborate: it depends on what you're wearing and how you're shaped!

- E.g., if you're broad-shouldered and triangular, you might be more able to tuck in (even to high-waited pants) without looking like the pants are swallowing your body

- E.g., if you are one of those guys who wears the waist of his trousers super-low on the pelvic bone, you'll probably look better tucking casual shirts and worse tucking nice ones

- E.g., if you have big hips/thighs or a big ass and they disturb the line of your pants, you might be more inclined to leave shirts untucked so that your silhouette is still linear

- E.g., if you wear your pants skinny/tight and tuck in a bigger/blousier button-down (or if your body is just bigger on top in general), that has a completely different effect than if you wear your trousers wide/loose and tuck in a more fitted button-down (or if your body is just skinnier on top in general)

I don't think tucking in itself makes a person look like a turd at all, no -- it's just a matter of what's going to look better for you that way versus untucked. Thin, taller guys with low-ish waists are very well set up for wearing slim-cut things that look stylish together when tucked, I think.

I guess I would also recommend making sure you have some good belts and that they match your shoes (and that your shoes are good, too)

Well, I'm skinny and short (5'8"), so I'm not sure how that fits into the equation.

Honey, if YOU don't know....

Yeah, you might just want to spend half an hour in front of a full-length mirror tucking various shirts into various pants and seeing which ones look best! But if the question is just whether tucking in is inherently lame, or something, then the answer is no.

Question: if you're 5'8", I'm assuming you mostly buy button shirts that are cut kind of short and with flat (straight-across) bottom hems, so you can wear them untucked, right?

'patterned shirts' are pretty much all i wear. unless that means something i dont get

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one of our interns wore a black striped dress shirt the other day, tucked in very neatly and matched with pinstripe grey trousers, and amazingly it looked very neat and stylish. still not sure how he pulled this off. another intern wore a striped dress shirt untucked and looked like a complete slob.

Genuine dress shirts just plain can't be worn untucked -- I can't imagine why anyone would try! I'm not sure I ever even see anyone like that, apart from guys who just finished shifts as security guards, or whatever, and untuck to relax on the train home. They're insanely long, they have that V-shaped cut to go into your pants, they're blousy and need to be cinched -- everything about the says "I am a dress shirt and I am built to be tucked in!"

You all are probably wearing shorts anyway, so who cares at this point?

why is the untucked dress shirt (not nec meant to be untucked, as n describes, and even if cut more straight across the bottom, still too big or odd-fitting) plus black/neutral pants the going-out uniform for so many douchey and/or boring guys. i don't know, yeah, tuck it in or put on a black t-shirt. i off-handedly described a bar in my neighbourhood to someone the other night as 'yknow, guys in shirts' and they knew what i meant.

i guess this is where the polo shirt comes in to fill the gap

Naw, there are still loads of button shirts built to be worn untucked. (The whole Caribbean is based on it!) If you're shorter than 5'10" it's a little bit harder to find ones that aren't too long, but ... plenty of nice patterned and thicker and cut-straight-at-the-bottom casual shirts that are made to be worn that way.

I don't even mind as much when guys are wearing too-big work shirts the way you're describing -- you know, that sloppy/fratty habit of wearing an big untucked shirt that's a thicker cotton, flannel, patterned, work shirt. I mean, that's just kinda unstylish and normal. But a thin, solid-color, long-cut, sold-pinned-to-a-board-in-a-package dress shirt, that's just insane.

tucking tshirts in sucks

^^ you'd only ever think it actually looked good if you were really well-muscled, and then everyone would just think you were trying to show off your muscles -- it's no-win, yes

oh right you mean like chelsea boy thing with white pants or something.

yeah i know abt shirts that are meant to be untucked, was just talking abt these guys, and how many of them don't know about the different btwn shirts that are meant to be untucked and those that aren't. i appreciate a good not-meant-to-be-tucked cuban shirt or cowboy shirt or etc etc for sure - and it's awful when guys tuck these in!

but not like end of the world awful

i accidentally went to a suburban grocery store yesterday

I just bought a bunch of St3ven Al4n shirts and they're perfect for tucking in. I'm trying to go for a more adult (but not toolish) look these days. :<

why do i love his shirts

LOVE

They're smartly cut collared shirts that aren't sloppy loose or Euro-trashy tight. It's everything I've been looking for.

exactly. the cuts are super. and the prints. i have this awesome 80s purple thing, it's rawr.

hahaha ladies and gentlemen, burt_stanton slides gracefully from bitching about Park Slope yuppies and Ivy Leaguers to raving about $150 shirts

one of us, one of us, one of us

one of somebody, anyway

how about tucking in polo shirts?

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/mzing12/tuck.jpg

There's the end result. The jeans are tapered, so I'm going for that 1991 Slacker look.

if you have a spare tire this is usually a bad idea, unless you want to wear your pants around your belly button, which sometimes doesnt look that bad

Nah, I have a skinny, compact frame but I guess it looks like I'm fat thanks to the lighting there.

i meant me

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it's pretty challenging to successfully tuck your shirt into pants that have a low rise -- long shirts bunch uncomfortably and short shirts come untucked as soon as you move. pretty sure you should be wearing your pants high up on your hips or at your natural waist for a secure tuck

That's kinda why I said it works better with casual shirts -- low rises tend to mean either a halfway "Alabama tuck" or a kind of rodeo-dude / Matt McConnaughey type of thing (note: I know actual rodeo guys tuck in medium-high and all but you probably know what I mean here)