# Tucking in T-shirts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 27, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266 "2012-11-27T14:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266/81 "2012-12-10T14:14:37Z")

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> Quoth **Spectre of Pithecanthropus** :
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> I must be confused; I thought Hawaiian shirts and Aloha shirts were the same thing.

I’m not familiar with the term “Aloha shirt”, but I was presuming the same thing. What was confusing about what I wrote? My first sentence was referring to T-shirts (the thread topic), not Hawaiian shirts (the topic of a few posts just before mine).

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**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266/82 "2012-12-11T17:22:19Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> I can’t see the difference between those and “jeans and sneakers.”

You really can`t see a difference between those jeans and nicely cut ones that fit well? I can see the sneakers being harder to ‘get’ for some people.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266/83 "2012-12-11T17:25:40Z")

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What squicks me is seeing a semi-derelict guy - maybe developmentally hung up, maybe just socially - whose person and clothing are greasy/dirty but whose shirt is tucked in. Typically he’s fat, under a tight belt, and a bit childish-looking. It looks really OCD/insecure.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266/84 "2012-12-11T17:28:36Z")

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> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#):
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> You really can`t see a difference between those jeans and nicely cut ones that fit well?

They just look like regular jeans to me.

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**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucking-in-t-shirts/642266/85 "2012-12-11T18:15:52Z")

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I’m missing the “depends” alternative in the poll.

T-shirts worn with jeans, cargo pants or shorts are of course worn untucked.  
If I’m wearing a nice T-shirt under a sport coat/blazer and over some nice pants or chinos, I tuck.  
Many of my polo shirts have splits in the sides and something resembling tails, and I tuck those.  
Polo shirts without tails are worn untucked.  
Inside my house, I never tuck.

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