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Julie Sabatier

To what extent do clothes influence our behavior?

Latest Post: December 6, 2010 at 12:23 AM

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I believe that clothes are an essential factor in deciding how we behave socially.

For example, the fashion to wear the white and high collar shirts at the beginning of the century

made women behave differently than today's women wearing these kind of clothes :

The reason I started thinking about this subject is that I took a train filled with a boys' class of 13 years old. I thought it would be a mess (especially since the train was overcrowded and most of them had to sit on the floor), but these boys were extremely quiet, polite and respectful. I'm convinced that one main reason is that they were all dressed like little gentlemen : white shirt, tie and jacket.

To what extend do cloth influence our behavior?
Which kinds of clothes do we want for ourselves and for society?

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Howard Jack

December 6, 2010 at 12:23 AM

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I think we can put on clothes and assume a role. The business suit leads to professionalism. I think our brains are simple enough to be affected by our clothes. I also think other people are affected by what we wear, so their interactions with us are changed if we wear certain clothes.