Give 'em what they want - Part Two - Your General Appearance

Continuing the series of "Give 'em what they want" today's focus is on your overall general appearance. Once again take a good long, hard look in the mirror at yourself. Is what you are wearing something that you wear on a regular basis? Do you like it or is it merely convenient?

There are two types of poor dressers: those who simply don't care and those who simply don't know any better. Remember the title of this series is Give 'em what they want. Keep in mind in order to change whom you attract, you have to change your outward appearance. This means chances are what you are wearing is NOT attractive.

You might not want to read this, but, if you don't care about your outward appearance, what makes you think that anyone would give you a second look? They'll never get to know your personality if you can't attract them first. Dressing is about others, and, not about you!

The movie "The Devil Wears Prada" takes a look at fashion and the quote below more than likely applies to you:

Miranda Priestly: [Miranda and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit. Andy sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same] Something funny?
Andy Sachs: No, no, nothing. Y'know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. Y'know, I'm still learning about all this stuff.
Miranda Priestly: This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.

From the movie "The Devil Wears Prada"

Your assignment today is to rent and watch "The Devil Wears Prada" and notice the transformation of Andy Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway) from frumpy to stylish. Watch the movie two or three times if necessary.

After you're done, take a hard look at yourself. Is your manner of dress like Andy in the beginning of the movie or more like middle to the end of the movie (not including the very last part when she goes on the job interview.)

Tomorrow we'll examine how you can begin to morph from frumpy to stylish.