- Hey now, I'm Dorian joined by my wife
and celebrity menswear
stylist, Ashley Weston.
- Hello.
- No, you gotta say hey now.
- Hey now.
- We were watching the
Larry Sanders show right now
and it is so frickin'
hilarious when Hank does it.
Hey now.
- I did not realize, who,
who says that on Howard?
Oh, Howard said that.
- Everyone says it.
- Howard Stern, yeah.
- On Howard Stern Show.
- Yeah.
- They stole it from there.
- Hey now.
- Anyways, fellas, we got a
great summer question for you.
Let's get into it.
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So Ashley, Sebastian had
a wonderful question.
He said, "How should my swim
trunks fit this summer?"
So, I have two minutes on the clock
when you're ready, lemme know.
- I am ready.
- And go.
- Okay, so let's start with length.
So it doesn't matter what your height is,
you always wanna make your swim trunks
are three inches minimum above the knee.
- [Dorian] What's the maximum?
- So the maximum is going
to depend on your height.
So if you are a taller gentleman,
I would say you actually
kind of wanna keep it
around the three inch mark above your knee
but you can go all the
way up to mid thigh.
But the thing is though, is
you already, you're tall.
You have very long legs,
so we wanna make sure
your swim trunks are kind
of kept proportionally
with the rest of your body.
So you wanna show off a little less leg
so that's why I always recommend
around three to four inches.
- Show off.
- But if you're a shorter gentleman,
then you obviously want
to show off more leg
because it actually visually
will make you look taller.
- So, perhaps then you just
want the length a little shorter
because it'll make your
legs look a little longer.
- Yes.
If you're a shorter gentleman
or you're on the shorter side.
But if you're average height, then.
- Then actually you still go with the,
my recommendation that I
just told you guys about
for taller men, so go
about between three inches
above your knee up to mid thigh.
Now, the reason why I have
kind of these guidelines
with how short your swim trunks should be
is because just with
any article of clothing,
you always wanna make
sure it's proportional
to the rest of your body.
- You don't wanna look,
if you're tall like me
and I've got, like,
shorter swim trunks on,
I just look like, like a giraffe.
- [Ashley] Like daddy long legs.
- [Dorian] Like, it's like all legs, yeah.
- [Ashley] Like the spider.
- Like the daddy long legs.
But if you're shorter and
you've got longer swim trunks,
it actually makes your
legs look really short
so obviously you don't want that.
Now, Ash, about the fit on the sides.
- Yeah.
- Like, how baggy,
oop, there we go.
Now, about the fit on the sides,
how baggy do you really want it?
- Um, not baggy at all.
So, a good rule to kind of stick with
is you should be able
to pinch, I would say,
ideally, you should only be able to pinch
about one inch of fabric on
either side of your thigh.
So, maybe half an inch
to an inch of fabric
on either side of your thigh.
- You really want it to fit pretty,
not, well, I won't call it tight,
but you want it to fit
pretty close to your legs
because it will look, again,
proportional to your body.
- Now as far as tailoring goes,
'cause I know you're gonna
ask me about tailoring,
I already know this.
- Can you get
swim trunks tailored?
- You can get the length tailored.
- Okay.
- You can
get them shortened, now.
- But on the width.
- In terms of slimming the
leg of the swim trunks, no,
I do not recommend that at all.
It's gonna be costly, or
also just not even possible
because sometimes with
swim trunks, obviously you
have pockets on the side, all of that.
So I just think that it's a waste of money
and there are so many options out there
where you can find a swim trunk
that fits the way it should in the leg
and even if it's a little long,
that's a super easy, inexpensive
fix at the tailor shop.
- So you can fix length,
but you can't fix width.
- Yes.
- Ash, is that it?
- Yep.
- That's it.
- Happy swimmin'.
- Yeah, happy swimmin'?
- Happy swimmin'?
- Hope you guys have a great summer time.
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