You forgot the seemingly platitudinous but actually important one: how it makes you feel.
I’m not kidding. Something that makes you feel exposed or overcompensating can and will affect your posture, your body language, which will attenuate the “impress” factor of your choice of outfit on the audience. This extends beyond wrong sizing, or fabric: I’m talking about the effect of self-consciousness about an outfit (which is a high probability if you’re going outside of your comfort zone, and wearing something “to impress”) affects your physicality.
But also, what do you mean by “impress”? I assume you mean a certain degree of ostentation? Does “dress to impress” always imply a relative “overdressing” for the occasion, i.e. more formal but ostentatious relative to the baseline of how everyone else in the setting will be dressing?
You forgot the seemingly platitudinous but actually important one: how it makes you feel.
I’m not kidding. Something that makes you feel exposed or overcompensating can and will affect your posture, your body language, which will attenuate the “impress” factor of your choice of outfit on the audience. This extends beyond wrong sizing, or fabric: I’m talking about the effect of self-consciousness about an outfit (which is a high probability if you’re going outside of your comfort zone, and wearing something “to impress”) affects your physicality.
But also, what do you mean by “impress”? I assume you mean a certain degree of ostentation? Does “dress to impress” always imply a relative “overdressing” for the occasion, i.e. more formal but ostentatious relative to the baseline of how everyone else in the setting will be dressing?