how are you supposed to hold your arms when someone is putting your jacket on?
my boyfriend always tries to "help" me into my jacket but all it causes is an awkward struggle to find the other arm hold haha so should i just keep my arms straight back? or like how does that work :p im sure there is a special tactic for it because rich people have someone put their jacket on all the...
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Bela say: You're supposed to drop both your arms straight by your side and then slant them straight back behind you as you yourself maybe bend slightly forward at the waist. This allows the person who is putting the jacket on you, your boyfriend, to slide both your hands simultaneously into the arm holes of the jacket, or one hand then the other, and then easily raise the jacket up, as both your arms slide into the sleeves at once, until it reaches the shoulders and he's able to close it around you by drawing his hands down the collar onto the lapel with his arms now around your body as he is all but hugging you from behind.

If you do one hand then the other, the key is to leave your first arm straight and down so that he can't bring the jacket all the way up your arm to your shoulder and then turn your back on him offering your second hand straight and down and back so that he sees he needs to thread your hand and arm into the second sleeve down there behind you near your hips and butt.

What you don't do is give him one arm way out to the side or from in front to slide the jacket onto all the way up to your shoulder because you end up in an awkward mess when he comes around the other side and you bend your other arm up to meet the arm hole with your hand only to find you don't have the room to straighten your arm out to get it threaded into the sleeve. You may even be wondering how you ever put your own jacket on at that point, forgetting you don't actually put your own jacket on that way but thread first one arm through and then drop your second arm and hand back to reach behind you and catch the arm hole and then bring it up in one swoop and a shrug, which is easy if it's you doing it.

That's why you should just drop both arms behind you and let your boyfriend bring the entire jacket up both arms at once. When he does, his hands are on the collar and then slide down to the lapels, naturally wrapping around the front of you to help bring the jacket fully onto your shoulders and close it, at which point either you can turn around or he can turn you around for a romantic kiss, because you turning around at that point leaves his arms and/or hands on your shoulders and puts your face up close to his face, only a few inches away.

If you're comfortable with your boyfriend and you want to do this when you're out so that you look as smooth as a couple of movie stars, then just tell him so and practice it a few times at home. Movie stars have several takes in which they learn this maneuver, but when you're at a restaurant or whatever, you only have one take, so do your takes at home, if you can. If you and your boyfriend are still kind of new and you think that'd be dorky, practice it with a girlfriend of yours, who might want to know this maneuver too, so that you know how to do it well enough that he can follow your lead.
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Elaine M say: Put your arms down at your side and angle them back to an 8:00 position. The jacket slides up and as it passes your elbows you bring your arms forward and shrug it on.
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say: He's just trying to cop a quick feel.
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CarolOklaNola say: You do it one arm at a time. Hiw do you put a jacket or coat on when you ha e no help?.
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