Gemma Spake

They are more likely to combine styles and combine color palettes.

They are less likely to choose clothes that camouflage them.

And that really makes a lot of sense.

I feel like extroverts are the ones like holding up

the fun jewelry etsy shops and like the worded t-shirt stores because they're looking for a way to display their personality as vividly as possible to kind of almost like a butterfly like attract people in let's go in the the opposite direction if extroverts lean more that way what does this say about people whose clothes are always professional and pressed and um very neat and tidy and

These people are like the hallmarks of conscientiousness.

According to that same 2021 study, these individuals, although they are very socially aware, although they are confident, they seem to gravitate more towards classic formal styles.

They seem to represent themselves as organized, as reliable, as punctual.

They use fashion to signal competence and order.

you want to know the weirdest fashion psychology fact I learned the other day?

If someone is wearing a wristwatch, that can actually tell you something about their personality.

So a 2015 study looking at, I think over 700 people found that people who wear wristwatches are more conscientious, more responsible, more rule following compared to people who

don't wear wristwatches, they're typically less conscientious and they're less likely to follow the rules.

So there you go.

If you want to look good in a job interview, show up wearing a wristwatch because it signals a lot of really good things.

It's just so weird how fashion and personality kind of connects in that way.

Something as simple as a wristwatch, that's like a peek into who you are as a person.

Two final conclusions from that same study, just because it was just such a magnificent one.

We have to go into detail on it a little bit more.

People who are high in agreeableness, they were also more likely to wear less traumatic or unusual clothing.