Having A Good Appearance: Right Sense Of Dressing

The first impression that people have about you is created by the way your appear. The truth is that no one knows what goes on in your mind and may only judge you by what they can see physically - your appearance. This is why I always tell people to have a good sense of dressing. More often than not, how people address you is a direct function of your appearance. If you dress in a demeaning manner, they will address you without regards. You may have something to offer but the first thing is to gain the attention and attraction of the person and one way to achieve that is through your appearance.

The reason why people dress well when going for a job interview is because they want to create a good first impression before the interviewers can then know about their other qualifications. You will agree with me that the power that is embedded in that very first impression is so much that you may not get a second chance to have a shot at the first impression. So always make the first impression to count. Just to be very clear on this, dressing well does not mean putting strain on your pocket or going outside your budget to go for designer clothes. Trust me, you can still go wrong with a designer cloth if you do not have a good sense of dressing. Right from where you are, you can have an excellent sense of dressing with whatever wears you can afford.

Before you put on any wear, first ask yourself what impression will likely be created in the mind of people by this dress? Also ask yourself if you run into someone for the first time, will you like the impression that will be create by them about the way you are dressed? Just to let you know that Indecency, most times, does not come by wearing bad clothes but by wearing a cloth meant for another occasion to a wrong occasion. For example, imagine wearing clothes meant for swimming to a public event, they will definitely look at you as Indecent.

You can easily be associated with a particular lifestyle or culture just by the way you dress. In this part of the world for example, there are many tribes and cultures that make up the entire country. Each of the tribes or ethnic groups has their own unique way and style of dressing. For instance, if an Hausa man dresses, you can easily distinguish him from an Igbo man or a Yoruba man. This is because of the clear distinctive features in the way of dressing. This also goes to prove that dressing speaks more volumes that we can even imagine. This is also why various careers have various dressing codes because they speak volumes.

I remember what I experienced in my former place of work. A day in a year is normally celebrated as the cultural day and every staff is required to come to work in a Nigerian native attire. On that day, I dressed as an Hausa man even though I am not from the North. Throughout that day, almost every customer that came to my table started the conversation with a typical Hausa greetings: "Sannu da aiki". Some even went as far as trying to engage me in the discussion with Hausa language. I was just stuck at explaining to them that I can barely understand what they are saying because I'm not a native Hausa. You see, they already created an impression of me simply because of how I was dressed.

It is worthy to note that more importance should be placed on appearance even in the matters of friendship and relationship. You may have a good intention towards someone but your dressing can discourage the person and they may misread your intentions. You have to know that there is something that should first attract you to the person before your intentions can be known. So have a right sense of dressing.

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