(September 15, 2016 at 2:56 am)Losty Wrote:(September 15, 2016 at 2:53 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I would agree with that except for the fact that you might draw the wrong conclusions and commit a faux pas.
That would be a risk whether it's based on clothing, age, gender, apparent personality, body language etc etc etc. People make inferences based on perceived data. There's always a risk of being wrong but it's impossible to function without doing it.
Ok, fair point. But still, it seemed to me like the OP was looking to generate a discussion about the more negative ways clothing can affect our judgement of a person's character. Worded badly, like you said, but still. We can infer the direction he was heading in, yes? I don't think that direction included pointing out obvious things, like you are.