DOUBLE BREASTED JACKET

We're going to be covering the double-breasted jacket with the upsurge of menswear and men actually taking care of their appearance.

A lot of classic garments are coming back into play and specifically the double breasted jacket which we're going to be speaking about today.

You've seen many wear this jacket quite often and today what I'm going to cover is basically what makes a double-breasted jacket different from a single-breasted jacket.

What benefits it provides the wear and a little bit about the history of how this piece came to be known.

WHAT IS IT

The double breasted jacket is very closely related to English tailoring and you'll see why when I get into my history segment about this jacket but first to start with the difference.

So obviously the most obvious difference you can see is that you have two pieces of fabric that cover your chest and stomach area or basically overlap.

what this does is that the lapels give an elegant overlap and something that doesn't come with a single-breasted jacket.

which is why a double-breasted jacket tends to be a little bit more dressier.

another thing that you will always notice with the double-breasted jacket is that they will 99.999% of the time come with peak lapels.

I have seen notched lapel jackets but they're not that flattering and also paired with that is probably like 70% of the time there will be wide peak lapels.

This is something more of a 70s resurgence that is happening and a style that was popular in the 70s. so what this basically does for the wear when you pair why peak lapels like this, a lapel overlap like I was speaking about and ultimately since it overlaps it hugs your waist a little bit tighter and more snug.

what this does for the wear is that it broadens your shoulders and it cinches your waistline it does a lot better job than as you can see me wearing with a single-breasted piece.

this piece kind of hugs the wearer a little bit more on top of that it's functional. it provides heat so this jacket cloth is cut in wool that's a little bit lighter and more of an all-season type of fabric.

but if this jacket we're cutting them heavier probably 300gram fabric or above that's some sort of tweed or heavy wool. this jacket will provide ultimate detection during the winter.

finally the last difference that again is obvious is the buttoning you can find on double-breasted jackets.

Believe it or not anywhere from two to eight buttons optimally, you want six and that is what's worn most often and what you'll see off the rack or any other clothing maker.

and what the six button is, it's also called the six by three configuration and what that means is that there are six buttons on the outside three of them can be fastened.

that's what you want to look for the last key part that makes a double-breasted different from a single-breasted is something called an anchor button.

an anchor button is something that's hidden inside the left flap of the suit jacket and it does exactly what it says it does.

it helps anchor the left flap of the suit jacket to the left that way the double-breasted piece stays proportionate and remains with its original silhouette.

now you will see a lot of gentlemen that follow the train of thought of sprezzatura or Italian gentleman that decide to not button this as a form of rebellion.

if I might say to classic menswear and that's fine with them but that's something that I personally would not recommend and I always think it's proper etiquette to fasten.

That anchor button now finally just a little bit of the history of how it came to be.

so you can understand the functionality of menswear like I've mentioned before and a lot of my articles, the beauty about menswear, as opposed to women's wear, is that.

A lot of what it has been created for men this is actually meant to be functional and not fashion and aesthetics and the good looks that it provides a man.

It's basically just an added bonus and the same can be said with a double-breasted jacket.

The double-breasted jacket apparently can be traced all the way back until imperialist Britain and the Age of Exploration.

What basically happened is that you had sailors at sea almost all year exploring in very harsh conditions so what Taylor's at that time did is created something called the reefer jacket.

And what the reefer jacket was essentially what you see today well today is a modernized version of it but.

It was a coat that lapsed twice on top of the where it was a very thick one and since it had double buttons and helped with the really harsh condition and again helps protect the men with proper tailoring.

And if you think about it, this double-breasted piece does the exact same job today obviously a little bit more refined but when you get this in a heavier sweet or heavy wool like I mentioned in the beginning,

It will protect you on very cold winters.

So that's basically it for this article guys. That was all about Double-breasted Jacket. if you guys liked this video and found it informative remember to share this video so we can reach and teach more men. And do share your views in the Comment section.

HAIR CARE TIPS - BEST HAIR CARE ROUTINE

A hair care Routine is one of the most important things that you can do to yourself from a men's grooming perspective. Whoever you are, wherever you are in the world at some point in your life your hair is gonna start trimming all day.

And that's why while you're young you've gotta learn how to take care of your hair as well as your scalp. As Indians, we might have very vary genetics but keep in mind that today's hair care routine is all about hair from a health perspective how to take care of your hair, how to wash it the correct way, how to oil it the correct way, even the post-wash treatment.

OILING

Step 1 India's biggest gift to the world of men's grooming. oiling your hair. you've got all your hair at least two or three times every week because oiling your hair nourishes it.

So quick pro tip. heat up your oil before applying it on your scalp. that hot oil opens up the pores of the skin on your scalp and then the oil can seep into the scalp. this oil is helping nourish your scalp as well as your hair. what does the nourishment mean?

It prevents bacterial as well as fungal infections in the long term it helps strengthen your hair it helps your hair grow better but most importantly it keeps your hair thick for as long as possible.

If you're serious about your hair's health you got to start oiling your hair at least two to three times a week. now that number might vary according to your genetics. if you're someone who has oily skin or oily hair.

Then you might only be oil it once or twice a week. also, keep in mind you shouldn't over oil it if you boil it too much that also makes you prone to dandruff, because it clogs all the pores in your hair and that can possibly lead to infections.

So the rule of oiling is that heat it up a little bit let it just cool down, make sure it's warm and then start applying it on your hair also in this case I've mixed amla oil with coconut oil so that you get a little bit of mixed nourishment.

The other thing with oiling your hair is that ideally, you want to oil it and let the oil stay in your hair overnight at least 12 hours. it lets your hair, as well as your scalp, absorb all the oil.

But we're living in 2020 and it's not a very practical decision. that's why you know just maybe about one hour of oiling with this technique of heating of the oil works fantastic.

If you don't want to actually heat up your hair oil you can go for a hot oil like this- basically, just pour it onto your hand rub it a little bit, it creates an exothermic reaction that means the oil releases its natural heat. apply it on your hair and once again is the same logic it opens up the pores in your hair. lets the oil seep in and nourish your scalp.

MASSAGE YOUR SCALP

So we're doing this primarily for health reasons and the other thing when it comes to oil in your hair is that you want to massage your scalp. when you massage your scalp and this circular motion. what's happening is that the blood circulation is increasing towards your scalp.

Whenever the blood circulation increases in a particular region it improves the recovery of that region. so all those dead skin cells get one-off because of your fingers and new skin cells form because of all that added blood circulation.

DANDRUFF CONTROL

The number one priority piece you need while you're washing your hair is an anti-dandruff shampoo. I use Head &Shoulders you can go for clinical clear or sever made they're all very strong shampoos and that's also why you can only use them once a week.

a lot of bros make this mistake of overdoing it with anti-dandruff shampoos. They treat the anti-dandruff shampoo like the only shampoo they should be using but that actually spoils the quality of your hair. If you want to care about the quality of your hair turn towards what the ladies use. we use these milder shampoos.

They are basically smooth intense smoothening shampoos and also whenever you're buying these ladies style shampoos, they come with certain variables like so-and-so's for silky hair so those for unmanageable hair, so when you buying these that's what you've gotta go looking out for.

Look for a shampoo that matches your requirements so that's why you got to have a mild shampoo use this about two to three times a week or mostly like every alternate day and then on Sundays or Mondays. on days you're not going out and you don't really care how your hair looks. on those days go for a strong antidandruff shampoo.

WASH YOUR PILLOW-CASES AND BEDSHEETS OFTEN

Also speaking about dandruff, make sure you get your pillowcases clean as an Indian bro a lot of growers don't get rid of the dandruff issue because of the pillowcases. all that dandruff is collected you and at the end of the day, it's an infection.

It's gonna continuously infect your calp if you keep taking a scalp and rubbing it against dandruff. if you've got unmanageable dandruff that's not even going with these anti-dandruff shampoos, wash your pillowcase, wash your bedsheet, that'll get rid of your problem so that's that when you're talking about shampoos you gotta understand these are water-based substances. so you wash your hair as well as your scalp with it.

POWER OF CONDITIONERS

But next, very importantly we're talking about an oil-based product of conditioner. this is also a very important part of my own hair care routine and it should be a part of your hair care routine. once again turn to the ladies why do people use conditioners now shampoos are for primarily washing up your scalp removing all the excess dirt the excess oil. now, this is oil-based so obviously, you can't use too much of it.

I wouldn't advise you to use it more than say twice a week especially if you have oily genetics but if you have something like dry hair if you generally have dry. skin this is a great option once again if you are going for a conditioner try going for a conditioner that pairs up well with your shampoo.

If you're going for any brand of shampoo, go for the sister pair conditioner of that particular shampoo. that's what you want to focus on usually these products work fantastic when you buy them in pairs.

POST-SHOWER THERAPY

Post-shower therapy is actually super simple just two main ingredients- the hair serum and a comb and obviously towel. dry your hair just dab it dry, do not ruffle it up but more importantly, let's talk about these two ingredients, if you've got unmanageable hair like I do a comb is not much use when it comes to shaping up your hair but what it does do is that it also helps in massaging your hair a little bit.

So if you just stroke your hair along its natural direction of growth but also make sure that the comb makes contact with your scalp you're once again increasing the blood circulation towards your scalp.

But if you're someone who chooses to use serum you're taking your post-shower treatment one notch higher. now serum doesn't really have too many health benefits like all the other factors but it's more about the look of your head makes it look thicker glossy or shinier and it also to some extent protects your hair from excess humidity and excess.

Do it by just forming a protective coating so just take a coin-sized portion to rub it on your hands and apply it onto the body of the hair not the scalp but the hair while it's still slightly wet from the shower once it's applied you can actually go and start combing your hair.

Make sure the comb touches the scalp increase the blood circulation if you like combing your hair if you like sharing it with your comb leave it as it is. but if you're like me and the comb really doesn't help much then just shape it up with your hand.

I feel that especially if you have rough hair. combs might even make it look worse than you want it to look. so just playing around with your hair using your hands will do the trick for you now keep in mind there are a lot more details when it comes to taking care of your hair that has not been able to cover here I'll be making more articles on it if you want more information on men's grooming

I keep talking but becoming that best version of yourself and what I honestly feel is that meditation has a very crucial part to play in that journey of you reaching your maximum potential.

Here we're going to talk about how to meditate and because what I honestly feel is that even from a health and fitness perspective this article is that one which can absolutely turn your life around.

FAMOUS PERSONALITIES IN MEDITATION

A lot of successful people all over the world -Steve Jobs, Hugh Jackman, and even Shane Watson have turned to meditation in order to enhance the rest of their life.

Shane Watson one of cricket's greatest all-rounders in the modern era has actually said that towards the end of his career meditation is what has been cope with injury.

Injury recovering, muscle recovery are just a few of the benefits of meditation, and if you're the kind of person who believes only in scientifically-backed studies and articles.

that exactly what I'm going to link in the Studies section below. if you're more interested in these topics make sure you give it a read but I'm going to go over the benefits super briefly.

Benifits You'll Get

A recent study done at UCLA shows that people who meditate have a higher level of gyrification in your brain. Gyrification means the folds in the cortex of your brain and this enhanced amount of folds actually linked with faster processing power.

You're essentially becoming smarter and your brain is becoming faster and more active through meditation.

What's even cooler is that long-term meditation was linked with more gyrification. the more you meditate the more your gyrification and the more processing power.

So essentially you can think of meditation as some kind of a brain workout where you're enhancing the power of your brain by just meditating for 10 to 20 minutes a day.

There've also been studies that show that meditation changes certain parts of your brain, it increases the size of those parts that are linked with happiness, linked with the ability to learn to memorize and to focus

what's even cooler is that meditation has been linked to decrease those areas that are linked with depression and stress.

essentially you're just enhancing your overall state of being through something as simple as meditation but forget all the signs for a minute if you want to know more about these studies, I have linked them down below.

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Let's talk a little bit about my personal experience personally. I just come to meditation initially to help me cope with my muscle soreness from the gym.

I read this article about how meditation helps you deal with your muscle soreness, how it increases your recovery and that's how I got into it but I felt all these other effects because of my long term meditation.

All I do is that I meditate for 20 minutes a day every day just after waking up in the morning, that is all, and just like gyming this is one of those things used to create a habit to actually see the benefits.

You're not going to see any benefits if you just meditate once in a while. The actual benefit of meditation is increased level of happiness will only happen after you meditate every single day.

HOW TO DO IT

Now coming to the actual tutorial how do you go about meditation the first thing you need to understand is that everyone's got their own definitions of what meditation is.

It's a very subjective concept. Now I'm not a yogi, I'm just going to give you my opinion on how to go about this process but what I do promise you is that if you follow the guidelines I'm sitting down it will make a difference to your life.

Now the theoretical definition of meditation is that it says disconnect. People say that when you meditate you're just super disconnected from your real life, don't think of too many things, you're just supposed to concentrate on your own breath which for the average person is kind of hard to do.

You can't just sit in one place and meditate and disconnect from everything else. Obviously, you're going to have a lot of other thoughts in your head.

What you need to understand is that this is completely normal it's human nature.

So I'm going to go about a step-by-step guide of how to meditate and try kind of minimizing these thoughts in your head

WHAT FIRST

First is that you sit down in a quiet place ideally in complete darkness and you fold your legs sit cross-legged and you just keep your arms comfortable however you want.

You can even sit down in a chair if you find that comfortable and then you can begin your meditation process.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

Mindfulness meditation is essentially you taking a deep breath, you inhale completely and exhale and all you go to concentrate on is your breath and you do this for about twenty minutes.

You know the trick to avoid thinking about twenty other things, see, consciously try focusing on your breath and do this for 20 minutes every single day.

Even if 20 minutes seems like a lot, you can start with doing it for about 10 minutes a day but the key is to just get yourself to do this.

Every time you open your eyes after a meditation session I promise you you'll be a lot calmer and the world will feel different.

What I just spoke about is something called mindfulness meditation where you just focus on a single thing and distract yourself from every other thought and in this case, it's your breath,

But from what I've observed and from my own personal experience. I couldn't go about doing myself as meditation especially as a beginner so the meditation that I practice is something called AUM chanting meditation

AUM CHANTING

Now, this has nothing to do with Hinduism or God or religion. What you gotta understand is that AUM is kind of a tangible distraction for your mind.

When you're chanting AUM, it's that same destruction that has you disconnect from your real life. That's all it is.

In order to go about AUM chanting meditation. Once again, you just got to sit in a comfortable place ideally in complete darkness and take a deep breath and just let out and hold.

So for 75% of your breath, you're going to chanting AU, and for 25% of your breath, you’re going to chant M. That's all you have to remember.

Once again, don't worry too much about the technique. It's not about how you sit or how you chant it. It's just about getting yourselves to chanting AUM every single day. that's what going to make a difference.

You know, when you go to the gym and you just get disconnected from life and you feel great after the gym. Thanks to all those feel-good hormones. Meditation is just another way of releasing all those feel-good hormones.

After a point, after you make it a habit. It becomes your disconnect. It becomes a source of recreation and that's where you want to reach but rule number one is that you just create a habit.

STUDIES :

These are some scientifically-backed studies that show the positives of meditation.

Make sure to read if you have any doubts or wanna gain some more information about meditation.

-Physically changes your brain: 2011, Harvard, led by Dr. Sara Lazer: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/

-Helps you manage stress and decrease side effects of stress: Study in 2004 (Sharma) : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2156587214543143

-Meditation reducing anxiety symptoms: 2014, Elizabeth Hoge: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-may-ease-anxiety-mental-stress-201401086967

-Benson henry institute of mind-body medicine, Boston: 3 months of meditation helps decrease blood pressure in hypertension patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199014/

-2010 Elizabeth Blackburn: genetic effects of meditation: helps slow down aging: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057175/

-2004 Dr. Richard Davidson: meditation makes you happier: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/

-2008 Journal of Personality and Social psychology by Prof Barbara Fredrickson: Meditation produced positive emotions which increased on a daily basis practice: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156028/

CONCLUSION

Push yourself to meditate and make you meditate for at least 10 to 20 minutes every single day. I'm a hundred percent sure that you will feel cheerful, breezy, and bright. Just begin and see the change. That's all you need to know. What are your thoughts about it? Do share in the comment section.

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HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS QUICKLY: WAYS TO MAKE DECISIONS FASTER

How are you a hundred percent sure that the decisions you're making right now about your life are correct?

UNDERSTAND WITH EXAMPLE

Because when scientists conduct a study, one of the most important factors they keep in mind is their sample pool, if they want to make an accurate conclusion they have to make sure that-

To have a large enough sample size which means enough people in their study because if there are only five people in your study you can't really say that your conclusion applies to the rest of the population

Is that their sample pool is diverse enough, you have to make sure that the people they are conducting the study with are spread out, meaning male and female people of different ethnic backgrounds, people of different ages again to make sure that the conclusion applies to the entire population.

If you're doing a study on how a drug affects people and your sample pool is filled with only men, then the conclusion you come to may be very different than if you had both men and women for all you know this drug of yours might be dangerous for women.

So why is it that so many of us draw conclusions about our lives and what direction we need ahead in from sample pools that are not diverse at all.

You know we're brought up in a household where our parents teach us their values, then we're sent to school for the next 13-20 years of our lives where most of us hang out with people with very similar values.

And then we make huge decisions about our lives that will affect us for many many years based off of these values.

Such as “oh I have to go to college” or “oh I have to study this” or “oh I have to get a stable nine-to-five job” or “oh I have to buy a nice car” or “oh I have to be in a relationship” or “oh I shouldn't say this or that”

How are you so sure that the conclusion, the direction you're planning the rest of your entire life in is correct when the large majority of your sample pool is filled with very similar people, not only that but most of us have a very small sample pool that we draw conclusions from.

DOUBLE BREASTED JACKET