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The type of clothes you wear and the colors you choose all send out subliminal messages on the type of person you are. Additionally, research has shown that the way you dress not only conveys the type of person you are but can also influence the way you think.
People use clothing and dress subconsciously to portray their social identity to others, but they also manage to identify with their clothing and in some cases it can be considered an extension of a person's inner self.
The way we feel about certain clothes and how they affect us can be influenced by those preconceptions. Different aspects of clothing design can have psychological effects, meaning changes in how we think and feel, and thus behave. A red attire can make someone feel confident while black might inspire seriousness.
“The formality of clothing might not only influence the way others perceive a person, and how people perceive themselves, but could influence decision making in important ways through its influence on processing style,” the researchers write.
Our responses are then overgeneralized to normal individuals whose faces resemble those who are unfit. Thus, we perceive unattractive people more negatively than attractive people because unattractive faces show more similarity to the faces of unfit or unhealthy individuals that are adaptive for us to recognize.
The way you dress says a lot about the kind of individual you are. The fashion you decide to go with should reveal your desires, interests, ambition, and background. Everyone is unique in terms of personality and interest, and therefore, it is important for a person to wear what emphasizes who they are.
The clothes we wear daily reflect the way we want others to perceive us and how we see ourselves. Clothes even influence our cognitive abilities. In 2012, researchers from Northwestern University in the US found that wearing specific articles of clothing had an effect on the wearer's psychology and performance.
Although we found no significant interaction between the color and clothing conditions, we did find multiple main effects. This suggests that either the color red or the suggestive clothing type will make a difference in perceptions of attractiveness and sexual intent, but when together, the effect is alleviated.
Clothes help set a perception of the person to the world. It's a non-verbal communication that instantly let's others around you have an idea of who you are or what you're trying to communicate. Hence, it's obvious that clothes do effect the way one sees themselves.
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