One thing that “gun people” are big on is Situational Awareness. The irony is that lots of those same people dismiss the importance of understanding the mechanics of style as somehow trivial and vain.
Oddly enough, I found that once I developed a deeper understanding of style, especially how clothing is SUPPOSED to fit, it made the concealment attempts of others blatantly obvious to me!
We’re not just talking about the casual gun carrier whose shirt is too tight or who didn’t realize that it’s ridden up to expose the firearm. I’m talking about professionals who make their living deceiving others:
Professional magicians!
Ok, probably not what you expected, but it’s true. I was in the 5th row at a Penn & Teller show, and I noticed some inconsistencies in their stage suits that made it more obvious as to how they accomplished certain aspects of their illusions.
While this may seem silly, there’s a lot of similarity between professional magicians and professional criminals. They both make their livings lying and deceiving people. The only real differences are that the magician TELLS you they’re going to lie to and deceive you, and they don’t use those abilities in a nonconsensual capacity.
Whenever Situational Awareness & Printing are discussed, the examples used are so extreme as to be almost comical.
Developing an understanding of how clothing is supposed to look and function allows you to key in to much more subtle tells. Why not put in a little extra effort to get something that equates to partial x-ray vision?
