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Have you ever seen someone wearing an outfit and thought that their outfit was really cute, but it would look better on someone else i.e. yourself? Have you ever seen two people wearing the same outfit and thought it looked better on person A more so than person B? If you have, I would like to know one simple thing: Why? Why does person A look better in that specific outfit? Why would the outfit look better on you as opposed to the person wearing it? Is it because they look trashy, cheap, or uncomfortable in the outfit? Is it the person wearing the clothes or is it the clothes themselves?

For example, I saw a girl wearing a pair of black leggings with some sort of ribbed design detail. I didn't see her entire outfit I might add. I instantly observed the leggings and the first thing that popped into my head was “cheap.” For some reason the leggings looked very cheap. In a weird twist of fate, the very next day I saw a different girl wearing identical leggings as the girl from before. The first thing that popped into my head this time was “cute”. I have no idea why the leggings looked cheap on the first girl and cute on the second. I honestly don't. I can’t say it was the way the leggings were being worn by both girls, because they seem to be wearing it the same way. I had no preconceived notions of either girl, so that didn't play any sort of part in my decision. So, why did I get two totally different reactions? It's truly quite perplexing. 

Do clothes have a stand-alone image? I started to wonder; when the first short strapless dress was invented did the inventor think, "This dress is meant to be slutty," or did someone wear the dress and they just looked so slutty that the dress had that connotation tacked onto it? Are clothes made to make you look a certain way or does the person wearing the clothes determine the image? Do clothes make the person or does the person make the clothes?
- Anonymous

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