The Journal of Experimental Psychology says that the color, material, fit, and style of our clothes can straightly put affect our confidence levels. More than 96 percent of people say that a change in their emotional state with a change in their style of dressing. For instance, a group of doctors were handed a ‘white lab coat’ and asked to perform a group of tests. Another group of equally qualified doctors was asked to do the same tasks without the ‘white lab coat’.

The group that wore the lab coat did flawlessly, while the ones in normal clothes made more mistakes. This was repeated with several large groups of people, and each time, the result was the same!

How Do Clothes Have Personality?

Simple clothing cues, such as a big smiley face on the t-shirt or sweatshirt, are proven to make one specifically happier and more at ease. People who changed into workout clothes on waking up feel more “charge up’ to exercise.

Colors have a major impact on mood:

• White- pure emotional state, glow, purity, focus
• Yellow – joyful
• Red – excitement, lust
• Light Blue – calmness, professionalism
• Dark Blue – consistency, dependability
• Green – cure, soothing (overuse of certain shades of green may signify envy)
• Orange – energy, enthusiasm
• Pink – romance, love
• Brown – grounded, reliable
• Black – Strength
• Purple – spirituality, mysticism,

Also, happier people were found to care about dressing well, while people in trauma, understandably, were found to underplay their clothing. For instance, people with clinical depression were found to lean towards ill-fitting clothes almost all the time. While people diagnosed with anxiety were found to do the opposite – they were obsessed with attire to unhealthy degrees. By switching their dressing, the same people were able to enhance their mental states for the day.

Repetitive Style Of Clothing

Research shows that repetitive style of clothing can be an indication of unwillingness to open up to new challenges and new adventures – an unwillingness to open up to the colors and joys of life! This particularly strikes a chord because head honchos like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg cultivated the trend of similar dressing every day … but the hard pill to swallow is that while these people were super successful, and we have much to learn from them, they also held a lot of mental trauma.

Steve Jobs has spoken directly about his emotional pain, while Zuckerberg has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. You could have thoughts about icons like Tom Ford and Karl Lagerfeld, the suit-men. A simple observation is that while these stars prefer a tuxedo nearly every day, they indulge in a diverse variety of textures, patterns, cuts, and accessories in their suits, so there’s no monotony.

While this isn’t a firm conclusion on dressing and emotional state, evidence and experience make it an undeniable fact that what we wear regularly is linked to our minds. Our clothes contribute to our emotional and mental energy. This is also sensed by people we come into contact with. We need to become more aware of how clothes affect our mood, and vice versa – about how our mood is affected by our dressing!

Final words: while your clothes surely do not define you. Moreover, they can still be a good feel-good factor and a way of self-expression. Make the world your runway!

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