What do your clothes say about you?

What do your clothes say about you?

Clothing choices are rarely neutral, and our inner secrets can be read in our choices. Coco Chanel once said, ‘If a woman is badly dressed, it’s the dress we’ll notice; but if she is impeccably dressed, it’s the woman herself we’ll notice.’

So what do your clothes say about you? To discover the hidden meaning in the way your dress, answer the following questions, put together with help from two non-verbal communication specialists (Eric Pestel and Nathalie Delhoume from the Lookadok agency in Paris)

  • 1. At a work meeting, you are the only woman…




  • 2. You’re running late and have to get dressed in a hurry. What do you grab from your wardrobe?




  • 3. You’re in a conference. You take notes with:




  • 4. You’re in the beauty section of a department store. To renew your makeup kit, you buy:




  • 5. You decide to dress in more sober colours, so you choose:




  • 6. You wear jewellery:




  • 7. It’s important for your clothes to make you feel:




  • 8. You prefer to buy your clothes from:




  • 9. At work, you would never wear:




  • 10. For you, clothes mean:




Comments

  • Angelita   (February 2, 2012 at 4:15 pm) Reply  |  spam

    Mostly right about me apart from imitate and adopt their codes…no way!

  • voice of reason   (January 30, 2012 at 5:54 pm) Reply  |  spam

    Dreadful quiz. Double header answers – often, mostly gold – what about often, mostly silver? I am not any of these things. Also assumes every reader is female and straight. yawn.

  • Raj   (January 16, 2012 at 1:04 pm) Reply  |  spam

    Totally not accurate quiz states that i dress for comfort and hardly wear makeup or fashion forward clothes. In reality its quite the opposite!

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