How to Fold Your Suit for Travel

what's up fellas it's great to see you and as always I'm glad that you're here in today's video we're gonna talk a little bit about travel and how I personally fold roll and pack my suits sport coats and dress shirts I'm running a couple different camera angles so you can see exactly what I'm doing so please stick around alright fellas I'm going to show you a couple different ways to do this the first thing I always do though is I'll start with every other button buttoned all the way down the placket I will then take the shirts and flip it upside down okay so we're doing sort of that department store fold on this one I'd like to put a finger right here next to the collar and you're basically folding that whole half of the shirt over take the sleeve and the sleeve is just going to go straight down the back of the shirt eliminating as many wrinkles as I possibly can take the other side same thing fold the whole half of that shirt back over on itself take the sleeve and just let it just it just kind of wants to relax right in this position here so from here guys you can do one of a couple things you can fold it in thirds and have a very nice flat package or what you can do depending on what you've got like a duffel bag or a suitcase depending on like how tight you want your bundle to be here taken you can roll it like this and a nice little soft roll and that gives you a nice compact little bundle and this works really really well one thing I wanted to add here really quick though feather looks like this isn't a magic potion that will eliminate wrinkles entirely typically when I'm traveling I'm either staying at a hotel a relative's house or some type of air B&B where I do have access to an iron an ironing board what this is doing by folding your items enrolling them in this manner is you're eliminating those big heavy like press wrinkles and seams that you get if you just sort of fold an item over on itself and then have a bunch of other items in your suitcase weighted down on it alright guys so before we get into the suit jacket and sport coat I want to do this first because this is going to come into play here in just a minute trousers very simple guys we're folding these in half you can fold them you can roll them I like to do the roll so I'll start to bottom kind of roll and pull roll and pull keep the wrinkles out as best you can and then you end up with a little roll just like this again I'm gonna set this aside because this is going to come into play in just a moment alright guys the first method I want to show you to fold your suit jacket or sport coat is put your hands inside just like this and then bring your hands together like you're clapping your hands a little bit and then grab with one hand both shoulder pads pop the collar up like this and then take the shoulder pads and pull them through you're kind of turning your jacket inside out and at this point you can let go and line up your lapel make sure your notches are nice and lined up from here guys take the shoulder pads you just pulled through and push them back through this way and as you can see your jacket is folded very nicely right in half from here fold it over and you can pack this in your suitcase just like that alright guys the next method I want to show you is starting similarly as you did the last time but take one shoulder pad just one and pull it through inside out then take the other arm and put it into the shoulder pad you're kind of turning your jacket inside out at this point okay from here as you can see your jacket is nicely folded in half to make this more compact take your trousers so what you end up with is kind of since your shoulder pads on this end or a lot then the lapel and right here you're just going to sort of add a buffer for the lapel just like this from here you just gently roll your suit in a nice little bundle just like this and it will pack just like this nice and compact all right guys one more thing you can do if you have a nice sort of travel garment bag like this this one's from suits apply my suit is in here on the hanger you're basically folding the hanger end over and then you fold the bottom half over and this is so cool that's got zippers all the way down you can just carry this it's got handles on it just like that or you can just lay this flat down in your suit or in your suitcase right on top so guys if you enjoy men's lifestyle content like this geared for us please subscribe and hit that thumbs up button it really does make the big difference guys I appreciate each and every one of you thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next week in a brand new video

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Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018