Category: Wear it

How to Tie a Four-in-Hand Knot Tie

Men’s Interview Dress Checklist:

  • Suit: A conservative, two-piece dark grey or a dark blue business suit would be the ideal suit to wear on the day of your job interview.
  • Shirt: A white, long-sleeved dress shirt that is neatly pressed and has a good fit is recommendable.
  • Tie: Go for a plain colored, non-distracting, conservative dark blue or dark red necktie made of 100% pure silk.
  • Tie accessories: A classic silver tie bar ensures that your tie is held in place during the interview. Without one, you often end up adjusting your tie several times during the interview, which will make you look nervous.
  • Shoes: Clean and polished conservative dress shoes, black lace-ups if possible, would be your best choice.
  • Socks: Dark socks, black if possible, would be ideally suited.
  • Belt: The belt should match the color of your shoes, so go with a black one if possible
  • Hair: Make sure that you get a well-groomed hairstyle before the interview. Be aware that short always fares best in interviews.
  • Beard: A beard needs to be shaved off.
  • Mustache: Mustaches are a possible negative, but if you must, then at least make sure it is neat and trimmed.
  • Fingernails: Ensure that they are clean and trimmed.
  • Rings: Wedding or college rings are generally acceptable but other rings are not.
  • Earrings & piercings: Both earrings and visible body piercings should be taken out on the day of the interview.
  • Body odor & fresh breath: Make sure that you do not smell badly and chew some gum before the interview, yet never during the interview.
  • Perfume & cologne: Keep perfume and cologne to a minimum.
  • Briefcase: Take along a briefcase with a notepad and a pen for any notes you may have to take during or after the interview.

Wear Tall Hair

Crazy hair like this is easy to create and guaranteed to make your friends laugh.

Here’s how: Grab an empty water bottle and a hair band. Bend over and hold bottle to the top your head. Grasp hair around the bottle and secure at top of bottle with hair band. Stand up and there you have it.  Just watch out for low doorways!

Baby Pin

When you are pregnant, the question most asked is “When are you due?”  Here’s a clever way to let everyone know.

Supplies needed:

  • 2 ” wooden heart
  • 1″ wooden ball
  • acrylic paints; flesh tone & baby blue, pink or yellow
  • 4″ thin white ribbon
  • lace or left over fabric for bonnet or cap
  • earring back with plastic protector for pacifier
  • thin line Sharpie
  • pin back
  • hot glue and gun

Paint heart and head, let dry. Hot glue head onto heart. Then hot glue ribbon bonnet or cap (I tied top of cap with a little piece of embroidery floss). Glue on ribbon bow,  earring for mouth and pin on back, just below head. Then with the sharpie, draw on eyelids.

Finally, with a thin sharpie, add ‘Due in (month)’ OR for an expecting grandma add ‘Proud Grandma in (month)’

Wear with pride or give to an expecting friend.

Bridal Shower TP Game

Set up: Get supplies together before hand and put into paper bags, 1 set per team.

To play: divide your guests into teams of 3 or 4. Each team picks a ‘bride’. Teams then have 15 minutes to dress their bride using supplies given. (Take pictures for posterity!)

Choosing a winner: The real bride chooses the team that came up with the creation that most closely matches her wedding gown and veil.

 

Supplies, per team:

  • 1 Roll Toilet Paper
  • 1 Roll Paper Towels
  • 1 Roll Tape
  • Scissors

Optional Items:

  • crepe paper in coordinating color
  • bundle of flowers for the bouquet
  • cheap plastic headband for veil

I also like to add something weird to the bag, to get guests wondering ‘what the heck is this for?’!