Gemma Spake

We can specifically look at this through the big five personality domains or personality principles.

So just as a little refresh, the biggest theory on personality is that our personality is made of five traits.

Those are extroversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

And if we look at the profile of each of these, where you sit on that spectrum for each of those traits is going to essentially reveal your clothing choices.

So starting with openness to experience, people high in this trait often don't

value play and they value aesthetics and they are creative and they are curious and inquisitive and unconventional because of that according to a paper published in the polish psychological forum in 2024 if you are high in that you are more likely to seek original items of clothing you

you are typically more fashionable as they called it.

You are most likely to be somebody who adopts the new trend first because of that intellectual curiosity and that kind of experimental personality that you have.

People in contrast who are low in openness to experience

there's actually been all this research that they wear more subdued clothes.

They're more likely to want a capsule wardrobe.

They're more likely to gravitate towards the same shapes, colors, like, yeah, silhouettes or features of clothing that they have for a very long time.

So openness to experience is this first thing that we can kind of divide fashion profiles by.

Are you more like colorful, creative, experimental, or are you more, do you kind of more dress differently

I don't want to say subdued because that's kind of, I think that has negative connotations, but in a more subtle way, in a more ordered way.

Next up are the extroverts.

According to a 2021 Frontiers in Psychology study, extroverts do in fact dress differently

from the rest of us.

For this group, clothing is a significant social signal.

The study looked at almost 800 women and found that extroverts preferred clothing that are seen as dramatic.