How to Tuck In a Shirt – Trendy Basic Skillset

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Recently, I made a blog post about loving graphic tee’s — What better way than to follow that up with learning how, or at least going over how to tuck in a shirt.

Specifically an oversized shirt.

The basic button up, a fun graphic tee, or an oversized sweater.

There are many ways to tuck in a shirt or even a sweater.

The Oversized T-Shirt Tuck

To tuck in an oversized tee, you will want to pay attention to where the waist of your pants hit.

From there, you’re going to want to take your oversized t-shirt and start rolling it up on the base of the t-shirt’s hemline until you hit your pant waist.

Next, tuck in the front of the shirt, and start working your way to the back (tucking it in) until you have the entire shirt tucked in.

After you have it tucked in, you will want to pull a bit of the shirt out from your front waist until you have a look that you like.

You can continue to do this around the rest of the tucked in shirt.

If you are layering a jacket, cardigan, blazer or anything over it, you can just focus on the front bit.

This is my favorite way to tuck in a graphic tee.

Cropped Graphic Tuck

You’re going to want to wear a tight sports bra.

From there, you tuck in the back of the graphic/oversized shirt into the lower back of the sports bra.

This let’s you have a fit that allows the front of the t-shirt a bit of more shaping around you and brings it closer to your body.

The front of the shirt may have an odd triangle looking situation going on.

To avoid that, you can tuck the shirt in to your jeans and pull it out to the desired slouch, or you can tuck the remaining bit into your sports bra, also pulling the shirt in the front to the desired slouch.

The Belted Tuck for Sweaters

I have seen so many cute oversized sweaters worn over a knit dress or longer dress in general.

Adding in some nice layers and warmth for the person wearing the outfit.

To get a cropped sweater look from a non cropped sweater, you’re going to want to put on the dress you are wanting to wear for this look.

From there, you are going to want to pull on your sweater.

Next, grab a belt and put the belt around your waist.

Start pulling the sweater out from the tucked belt.

Style to your desired slouch.

The belt should be hidden so only you are aware that you are wearing the belt.

Or, if you want a more sophisticated and polished look you can leave the belt over the waist section of the sweater and leave the sweater untucked.

How to Tuck in a Shirt – Oversized Button Up

With a button up t-shirt you can style a tuck in — in a plethora of ways.

I am just referencing the two I am most fond of.

The first is a French tuck.

In order to do this you need to have your button up on, or off it you find this method easier to just throw on already buttoned.

Basically you fold one side of the bottom of the shirt up and align the holes with the button holes on the same side.

Essentially cropping one side of the shirt and having the length left on the other side of the shirt.

From there, you just button as usual, with one side cropped in length and the other side remaining the same length.

This gives the appearance of one side of the shirt being tucked in but is less restrictive.

The Second Option is the cross tuck.

I don’t know if that is the official name but I will describe how to do it.

You start with the buttoned shirt, and leave the top two to three buttons unbuttoned.

Next you take the bottom half of one side of the button up and tuck it into the opposite side.

Do that again with the other side.

Tuck the entire shirt into your pant/short/skirt.

Next, pull out to the desired “untuck.”

The Third Option is the “seamed tuck.”

This is where your entire shirt is buttoned in full. Perhaps not the top two buttons or the top button, depending on your desired collar situation.

Next, fold one side of the shirt at the seam, hot-dog style.

Tuck it into your pant.

Do the same with the other side.

Untuck to desired position, or leave it as is.

This gives a perfect flat lay tuck.

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