Looking good is an initial filter type thing, which shows you put in the minimum required effort. It’s a signal that you take care of yourself. Though as @Elizabeth notices, that also sets basic expectations.
You can get dates and high quality relationships without looking good, but you’re playing with a large handicap, which you’ll have to overcome with multiple years of high quality friendship or equivalent.
Also, don’t trust your own judgment of whether your clothes look good (unless you have exceptional taste, which I doubt from how you’re phrasing the question) - ask some <target gender> friends whether whatever you’re wearing looks good on you. Even better—ask them to go shopping with you.
Looking good is an initial filter type thing, which shows you put in the minimum required effort. It’s a signal that you take care of yourself. Though as @Elizabeth notices, that also sets basic expectations.
You can get dates and high quality relationships without looking good, but you’re playing with a large handicap, which you’ll have to overcome with multiple years of high quality friendship or equivalent.
Also, don’t trust your own judgment of whether your clothes look good (unless you have exceptional taste, which I doubt from how you’re phrasing the question) - ask some <target gender> friends whether whatever you’re wearing looks good on you. Even better—ask them to go shopping with you.
I’ve heard good things about Kibbe as a system of working out what looks good on you etc.