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How do we get the person we like to notice us? In the midst of catching their attention, we tend to focus more on how we look and what type of clothes you should wear. And why is that? One way we can make your significant other notice us, by making ourselves look better. What better way of looking your best, than trying on different types of clothing that suit you perfectly. In the following boxes we will discuss how the way you dress influences  how attractive you are, including how different type of colors have an impact towards other people. Also how women dress to impress mates,  different types of clothing can have a different reaction from certain people. Yes clothing influences how attractive we are because it shows if you can make a good mate, but no because there's much less materialistic things in which people base their attraction to that one person. The way you dress has a significant affect on a person because clothing is attention catching and it explains natural selection

Introduction

Gaby

In the interview I started with one main question, “How does the way you dress influence how attractive you are?” From there I asked follow up questions regarding the first questions I asked. From there I tried to changed opinions, giving her different situations and circumstances and eventually even though I didn't succeed to change her opinion I did make a difference in the way she was responding. That is why I interviewed my 19 year old cousin, Gaby. She has a quick way of figuring out tough questions and once her mind has been set on something she'll stick to it and tried to protect what she's said. With the information I'm able to come up with a straight forward answer of the questions I asked.

 

The main focus of this interview was about how “clothing” can change an image of attractiveness towards a person. Once I asked the first question she responded with “ I think it has a lot to do with attractiveness.” Then after that I asked a follow up question, “how does this work for both genders.” How can the way you dressed make you attractive. She quickly responded that certain people dress the way they dress to make some of their features stand out even more. Such as how some people with blue eyes wear soft clothing that makes their eyes stand out, with results to making them more attractive. Then I asked another question, Can clothes give an image to how a person is?” She responded with, “certainly, there are many 

different people out there in the world and by the way they dress you can have an image to the type of person they might be. Such as a man wearing a nice business clothes, you can tell he works hard and is classy. Or in the other hand it can work the opposite, the type of clothes can also give someone a bad reputation. Such as someone who wear baggy clothes, with some really big shirt. Makes you want to stay away from him.” Now that I got that type of response from her, I gave her different types of scenarios that could happen to her. One was of three different dress men, one who's wearing a tux, another who is wearing casual clothing, and finally someone who resembled a “gangster” with baggy clothing and everything else you can image a gangster looks like, with that in mind I asked her can you tell me what you thought of them if you were in front of them. She said, “ for the man in tux I would think he's a hard worker who likes to dress nice, also that men in tux look good, as for the one who's wearing casual clothing well it depends if the clothes he's wearing look good on him. Finally for the gangster looking dude, I would think of danger because you never know what they their intentions could be. Compare to the other too who seem casual and peaceful, the gangster just doesn't bring a positive vibe.” I asked many other follow up questions regarding all the questions I had already asked.

 

In the end, with all the information I got. My final answer to my main question is that attractiveness has a lot to do with clothing picking because many people try to make there own features stand out, but even though there are still other people who choose to wear more formal clothing. Which makes them look better. Also that there are people who prefer certain type of clothing. In other words they find certain type of clothing more attractive than others. So clothing can give an image to how you are and can also show someone how attractive you look.

Interview

My article is called “Dressed for Sex: Red as a female sexual signal in Humans”, by Andrew J. Elliot and Adam D. Pazda. Right from the article you can tell that has to do with women dressing for sex and the color red. Well that's exactly what the article is about. It talks about how women show off the color red in clothes to signal men that they are looking for sex. This was tested with three different but similar experiments. The first one used random ethnicity selected women to answer a survey. In the survey they were ask how they would dress themselves if they had to put up an image of themselves on a dating website. They were provided with different options of how they would look, asking to what type of hairstyle to what type of clothing. One quetns for instant was about the color of of clothing they would wear. The majority of the women chose the color red witch just backs up even more the argument. The second experiment they used two different dating websites. Randomly selected 500 profile pictures from both so see how many of them are wearing or showing the color red in there profile picture. This experiment showed many different things, one thing for instance the majority of women looking for casual sex wear red clothing and women who aren't interested the majority show no red at all. Another thing for women who were interested in casual sex, the women that did show red had an upper hand compared to women who did not show red. According to the article, men are attracted to the color red more than any other color and the color red when is wore by a women signals they are trying to attract mens attention. For the final experiment they 

I interviewed Sandie Sazo  about Sexual Selection. I informed her that that Sexual Selection is a different kind of selection in nature in which traits give an animal an advantage in finding a mate and passing down their traits. My central question was, does the way you dress influence how attractive you are? Sandie was very intuitive and answered yes indeed it does. She went on by saying that, “there’s a huge difference when someone dresses formal and when another looks like a hobo.” She added by saying,”how clean and good you dress impacts you, even if you’re ugly, it makes you look good.”  I then asked her what if someone is extremely good looking in their physical but doesn’t know how to dress? She indicated that if that was the case she would help them dress well.

In addition, I asked her a follow up question asking if it was the same for females and males and how so? Sandie said,” yes,” then said, “because a girl might not have a pretty face, but them dressing formal can make a very different impression than someone who dresses ugly.” After that she expressed that the way someone dresses, all ugly, you’ll think, for example; that they are indecent or a junkie when talking about girls. She then compared, if you see someone dress well (female or male) you’ll think that person has their life together and they’re independent.  I proceeded by asking her what if is someone is really ugly and they dress well can that make your opinion of them change? She replied by saying that guys dressing well makes them more attractive. I asked her if the way a guy dressed is the first thing you look at when checking a guy out? “Yes because that lets you know whether he takes care of himself or not.” She continued by saying the way you dress sort of describes your character. “If you watch how you dress, that shows that you take care of yourself and you’ll take care of the person you are with because you would want them to match your fly (style),” in Sandie’s opinion.

Sandie

I read the article, Disco cothing, Female Sexual Motivation and Relationship Status: Is She Dressed to Impress?, by Karl Grammer and other collective authors, it indicated that women have a high tendency to dress for their romantic motivation. The whole article basically depicts that women often dress in clothes they know are flattering and well fitted. Women usually know what looks good on them and what doesn't. To sum it all up the article basically talks about the types of clothes, sexual motivation, hormone levels, and partnership status affect sexual selection, because it shows, women tend to do the fastidious picking of their mates; they hope their offspring will come out like their father. Clothing helps to make that easier because women try to impress men with their outfits or clothing that screams out sex. Based on the way you dress the eyes focus on the physical appearences and accumulate conclusions about their character. In fact studies from this article were made and found that the first places a male sees are the head and shoulders, and if the women's shoulders are naked then that will seduce men more than the rest covered body. Evidnetly women that were less and ght fitted clothes are considered sexier. One result of the test given to males was sexy clothing women wore, actually showed too much skin or was tightly fittted and made men drop the ratings of a females attractiveness due to not being the marital type. Certainly not someone you can bring to momma.

In my interview she wasn't sure how to answer my questions so I tried to give her questions she might relate to and give examples of the way people dress. I asked "Do certain clothes make people attractive?"  she says "Certain clothes make people attractive because the way someone dresses is the way you can express yourself as person and the way you dress says a lot about you." She agrees most of the time but she also disagrees that it does also have to do with your personality that it doesn't just matter what you wear, you can dress in expensive and good quality clothes but you can be rude and have a bad attitude and nobody is going to fall for a guy/girl who only dresses well but is bad mannered. She also says that your first impression is everything and if you dress bad when you first meet they will think you don't care about your appearance but she does think everyone has there own way of expressing themselves and that it does matter how you dress.

Kasandra

For my article it talks about how both men and women use clothes as a form of sexual signaling. It put that women use there bodies and there curves to attract men while men use clothes to attract a women, for example they say if someone is dressed in a McDonald's uniform you can have him wear a sleevless shirt and jeans with a nice suit and an expensive watch women were tested to rate how attractive the man is from what he is wearing. The man who is wearing high status clothing is considered more attractive, but for women it doesn't matter what you wear it gives an example saying if a women wears a walmart knock off its irrelevant because any clothing that shoes a women's curves that the first thing men are going to notice. My article is saying men are the one's who dress to impress while girls can wear whatever and men will only pay attention to there bodies.

My question was “how much does the way you dress influence how attractive you are?

For the most people they say it shows a type of style to your charater.  Its always the way you present yourself. Many women wear provocative clothing to get attention. For instance say a young women wears “short shorts” yes a man is your to think she is attractive because of the skin she is showing. When they see a young women dressed like that they are going to pumps their heads up in order to get what they want. The world we live in today is very materialistic with everything, such as clothing, shoes, basically women dress how they want to be approached. Not all women or men can wear exspensive   things. Majority of the males and females tend to think the more exspensive the clothing or shoes that t will bring more attention to them which is because that’s the world we  live in. dressing this way to make someone who doesn’t have the means to purchase these high priced clothing and shoes will have the next thinking they are well off. Everything that’s being mde isn’t for everybody. So here to say everyone is different and cant pull off a certain look that everyone wears

compared two different website. One where women are looking for casual sex and the other where women who are looking for a long-term relationship. In this experiment they used both for the data from both websites to see how the profile pictures looked in comparison. Obviously the first website showed women that looked their best in there most “hot” picture they could take. And as for the other website the women there showed how pretty they are. The difference here is that the ones looking for a relationship showed their true selves and in the other hand the other website showed how sexy they look. Over all for women who were looking for sex partners showed more red in comparison to the ones who weren't from the other website. But there are still some women that showed red and weren't looking for casual sex, which indicates that the successful rate for those who showed red were higher than the ones that did not. In the end it seems like the color red was popular in all the dating websites and gave women a higher chance of finding someone.

Conclusion

As a group, we concluded that clothing indeed affects a person. In our discoveries we found out that clothing affects the eyes, different colors affect mood and distort the male mind convincing them that women want to have sex with them. The purpose of clothing is number one, not be naked and second is to attract a mate. Whether a women dresses provocative or decent men will always be debating whether they want to hit it or not. As for women they try to find someone that fits into their lifestyle, their style, or and their reproductive goals. Women dress in such a way to attract men and men judge women by their clothes to detect whether they are "wifey," material. We cannot for sure say that clothing influences how attractive you are, but it definitely helps. So the ultimate question was whether Darwin and other Darwinians were right. And as we learned about sexual selection, we noted that without clothing or any of those colors that are on your clothes you would not have noticed the person you like. Truth be told without having some sort of outfit on it would be very difficult to focus on the person you like. but also it can be hard to truly get to know the person you like with all the materialistic things around.

Works Consulted

Victor Landaverde

  • Elliot AJ, Pazda AD (2012) Dressed for Sex: Red as a Female Sexual Signal in Humans. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34607. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034607

  • Pena, Gaby." How much does the way you dress influence hwo attratice you are?" Personal Interview by Victor Landaverde. 4 Sept 2016

Indiya Conway

  • Jones, Tanisha. "How does the way I dress influence how attractive I am?" Interview by Endiya Conway. wix.com. Endiya 9, Sept. 2016. Wed, Sept. 2016

Whitney Montoya

  • Lopes, Cassandra. Personal Interview. 5 Sept 2016

Katherine Lopes

  •  Karl Grammer , LeeAnn Renninger & Bettina Fischer (2004) Disco clothing, female sexual motivation, and relationship status: Is she dressed to impress?, Journal of Sex Research, 41:1, 66-74, DOI: 10.1080/00224490409552214

  • Sazo, Sandie. "How much does the way you dress influence how attractive you are?" Personal Interview by Whitney Montoya. 5 Sept. 2016
     

Tanisha

So Yes or No?

As a group, we went a little beyond our interviewed subjects and asked a few other people about what they felt with our central question. They came up with the most common three reasons to support yes and others came up with three reasons for no:

Yes                                                                                              No

  • Shows character                                                                       Personality counts                                                                      

  • Shows how you take care of yourself                                     Face and body matter                 

  • Shows one's wealth/taste                                                        Some just don't care

 

when we asked to thoroughly explain why they believe what they believe, many came up with a similar answer, for exaple when they were asked why they think personality counts more then their style of clothing? Many implored, something on the lines of, "well it doesn't really matter how well you dress, if your personality is ugly, then you're ugly to me. No piece of clothing can change that." Whilst others argued that, "it does matter because that shows that you can take good care of yourself, and you'll take care of your partner, even if you aren't the most attractive, having a nice presentable style makes you much more attractive than being ugly and dressing ugly aswell."

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