A crafty dad’s ‘ingenious’ hack to keep cool at his daughter’s destination wedding left family stunned. Terry Spillane leaped into action after hearing guests complain they’ll be too hot when Megan Spillane ties the knot in Greece later this month. The 76-year-old decided to cut the sleeves and back section from the shirt he plans to wear, then snipped the cuffs off too.
Footage shot a fortnight ago by wife Dawn Spillane shows suited Terry telling the camera ‘I think I’ve found an answer for all of us’ before joking that he’d patented an idea. He introduces his invention as the ‘cool shirt’ by taking off his tuxedo to reveal it has no sleeves and the whole back section is missing. Terry offers the modified shirt to guests for £45 each.
Megan, 27, posted the video to TikTok, where it has been viewed more than one million times, with users declaring Terry a ‘genius’ and some asking to buy one. The drainage business owner recommends the ‘off-the-cuff’ idea to any man attending a warm-weather wedding in the UK or abroad. Megan had to pack the shirt in her own suitcase ahead of another wedding in Verona, Italy earlier in August as Dawn refused to let him take it.
Terry thought up the idea ahead of a family friend’s wedding last weekend, and the same guests will attend Megan’s ceremony too. Admin worker Megan hopes her dad will take his bizarre fashion statement to her wedding and praised it as a ‘great invention’. Megan’s post has been liked more than 115,000 times on TikTok, with users showing interest in ordering the cool shirt and admiring Terry’s creativity.
Terry, from Brentwood, Essex, shared, “My wife asked what the bloody hell are you doing, so I told her I’m making a shirt for the wedding so I can stay cool. I thought if we can’t take our jackets off, it’ll be cooler because your arms and back will be able to breathe. When we sent the video, there were a lot of laughs from the blokes, and the women were calling me mad. Hopefully, I can convince people to join me for Megan’s wedding. I’d recommend people to give it a go because you’ll be a lot cooler.”