Importance of appearance
By: Adrian Cain
Tags: Social, Appearances, Clothing

Is the way we look that important? Let’s see

Before anything, I would like to make it clear that everything written in this article is related to only clothes/attire and not hair, face, height, weight, etc.

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It’s a no-brainer that a value of a person is measured by their personality and not by their external aesthetics, however, if I were to say that one’s looks don’t change anything I would be lying to myself and everyone else who is or isn’t reading this piece of a sheet (shut up).

Clothes indeed make a man/woman/anyone in-between. While expressing yourself you might not care about what you’re wearing (which is a good thing in my opinion), nevertheless don’t be under the odd impression that everyone who sees you feels the same way. What I’m trying to say is people who don’t know you develop their first impressions based on your attire no matter you like it or not.

So let’s say you’re going for a walk on the street, in the park or anywhere and you’re not expecting to meet or get to know anyone, I’d say, in that scenario, you should go for whatever’s comfortable for you since you’re having a “you time”, there’s nothing to be self-conscious about. And even while having a “you time”, someone initiates a conversation with you or vice versa, it’s still optimal wearing clothes that more or less says who you are, that way you’re not giving the deceitful signals about yourself, the other person partially understands what to expect and the foundation of that potential relationship is more likely to be solid.

You see, in the example given above importance of one’s attire is of low-level (wear anything you like lads).

And then there are aspects of our lives where wardrobe plays a crucial role and the most obvious/important aspect would be a career. Imagine going on a job interview in dad jeans, it’s unheard-of. Now on a small scale, hypothetically, imagine a situation, on that same job interview, where employers are down to three candidates, and all of those three candidates are better than each other, true professionals, however, the employer has to choose only one.

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From their point of view, it doesn’t matter which one they choose, because all three would be equally productive for their company/business. There are four possible ways they can determine which candidate to choose and solve the dilemma:

1)rock, paper, scissors

2)fight to the death

3)whoever can demonstrate the best card trick

4)whoever looks best

I think the latter would be more logical criteria than anything given above or anything else that can be thought of. Yes, people enjoy the company of good looking people, it’s in our DNA, biological essence, we are programmed that way and there’s nothing we can do about it. In this and similar cases, people, LOOK SHARP! Don’t depend only on your skills and experience in the field, you might have the brainpower of rain man, but don’t let your inappropriate clothing jeopardize your career.

In conclusion, you can spend most of your life not caring about your appearance as long as you are feeling groovy, however sometimes, when in Rome wear a tunic.