Point out that most peoples’ clothes don’t really manage to signal what they intended even when they’re trying, and someone will say something like “well, it’s largely about signalling to oneself, e.g. to build confidence, so it doesn’t matter if other people get the signal”. And, like… I roll to disbelieve?
I think having a good model of when vibe people get from clothing is important and I find it plausible that there is some rationalization going on with this… but also, the self-signaling thing does seem like a large enough aspect to be the most important part, to me, even if the other-signaling aspect isn’t entirely unimportant.
I think having a good model of when vibe people get from clothing is important and I find it plausible that there is some rationalization going on with this… but also, the self-signaling thing does seem like a large enough aspect to be the most important part, to me, even if the other-signaling aspect isn’t entirely unimportant.