Scientific studies in the field of psychology and human behavior have proved that your behavior in society depends on what clothes you wear. Clothing also affects health, emotions, relationships with work colleagues, relatives and friends. To reliably verify that clothing affects behavior, specialists conducted a series of experiments.
If you start to think about why you put on this or that thing, then as a result you will see that it can perform various functions. Clothing protects, adorns, creates a certain style and image, emphasizes the merits or hides the flaws of a figure, and belongs to a certain lifestyle, culture or religion.
In one of the experiments, it was revealed that a person whose clothes emphasize his high position, creates the image of a successful, business person, confident in himself and his actions. The created image affects the behavior of people around. When such a person violated the rules and, for example, confidently crossed the street to a red light, then the people nearby were also starting to move, without thinking about the consequences.
A curious study was conducted with people who were dressed in uniforms of the military, rescue workers, medical workers, and police officers. A man dressed in uniform asked passers-by to help him: carry luggage, exchange a bill, give a call on his mobile phone or show the route to the right place. People were very willing to respond to requests, while in cases with people dressed in other clothes that did not attract attention, this did not happen. When one woman, dressed in a medical uniform, and another, dressed in a regular business suit, was asked to collect donations for a medical foundation, people were more willing to give money to the one who was dressed in uniform, believing that in this case, the probability of fraud is much less, and her competence in medicine is higher than that of an ordinary person.
Among people involved in advocacy, there is an opinion that a person who comes to court should be dressed in a discreet but stylish enough suit to have a positive effect on the judge and everyone present in the courtroom. Also, some lawyers say that a wedding ring, worn on the finger of even unmarried people, has a positive effect on the decision made by the judge.
The following study was conducted among people who were allowed to wear an ordinary white coat and think about the person in which profession they are now portraying. Those who decided that the white coat belonged to the doctor began to behave more carefully towards other people. In their subconscious, there was an image of a medical worker and the belief that physicians should be more sensitive to people.
Another part of the people presented that the white coat was in line with the profession of an artist and they were 100% sure of it. As a result, they began to behave more freely and relaxed, offer new ideas, fantasize and be creative. In their opinion, artists possess precisely these qualities, and a white coat emphasizes their belonging to this category of people.
The idea of an experiment with clothes came about thanks to one famous cartoon, where children dressed in a plain dull school uniform get caught in the rain, which colors their clothes in different colors. The behavior of the children has changed beyond recognition: if in the form they behaved calmly and calmly, then after their clothes changed color, the behavior became completely opposite.
Researchers made another conclusion: if a person is dressed in clothes of a certain color and style, his manner of behavior will vary depending on this. For example, a T-shirt and black jeans cause a lot of aggressiveness, and a simple suit with a shirt and tie will make you more restrained and help to show business qualities.
When choosing clothes for work, going to the theater, cinema, for visiting a restaurant or for meeting friends, think carefully about what quality you would like to emphasize in yourself and how your chosen clothes can help you with this.