This is a great article in UK Grazia, September 2013, discussing how what you wear on a date can ‘make or break’ it. We all know that making a good first impression is key to any important meeting, but after fashion blogger Natalie Joos wrote about her date who complained about her designer jeans went viral, Rebecca Holman decided to see for herself. Rebecca details her experience as she embarks on 4 dates that she organised using on-line dating websites and then got the men she met with, to judge her outfits.
Rebecca enlisted the advice of psychologist Jennifer Baumgartner who states that “Not only does the outfit affect how you feel….it becomes part of the non-verbal package unconsciously used to assess you.”
It’s interesting that the short LBD generated the most positive response from any of her dates because he could see her ‘great legs’, despite Rebecca feeling incredibly uncomfortable in it. The man asked her on a second date but Rebecca declined however as she would have rather be asked out again because of her ‘winning personality.’
Rebecca concludes that next time she would definitely choose to wear an outfit that reflects her true personality and that from now on, she would perhaps be less judgemental of her date’s outfit…
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