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Yes, they are, but that doesn't bother me much and no one has ever commented on it. Heck, I've even worn shirts inside-out and people barely notice. They're pro

Yes, they are, but that doesn't bother me much and no one has ever commented on it. Heck, I've even worn shirts inside-out and people barely notice. They're probably too busy thinking about their own appearances...

jetrink 8y ago
People don't comment on it out of politeness, but they do notice. Then, consciously and unconsciously, they draw negative inferences about you. They might suspect that you are not well organized or that you are lazy. You are free to be unbothered by that fact, but their reaction to your appearance is outside your control. It is a slight headwind in your life that makes your interactions with people more difficult than they have to be.
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Surround yourself with better, less shallow people.
  - organsnyder 8y ago
    Everyone makes snap judgments based on first impressions—the best people are just more self-aware to be able to recognize this in themselves and counteract it.
  - sho 8y ago
    When you find a planet filled instead with these "better, less shallow people", let us all know. Until then, we're stuck on this one, where the GP's observations are 100% correct.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - EliRivers 8y ago
    One could argue that the people who notice are better people. Turning one's personal preferences into morality doesn't really help.
  - scarejunba 8y ago
    It's just marketing. For $50 and ten minutes a week for the local cleaners you can appeal to both. Why close off your market?
  - krageon 8y ago
    If you actually try surrounding yourself with only people that will not see this, I think you will come out disappointed at the size of your social circle. Not to mention that you usually don't get to pick the people you work with. Lots of things in your life touch upon the lives of people that you can't select for. That means it will be inconvenient at some point when you look bad.
neilv 8y ago
My quality of life improved when I started hanging almost all of my clothes, on coat hangers in the closet, and got rid of my dresser that required tedious weekly folding. Almost everything is wrinkle-free, at least in my climate, if I hang it immediately out of the dryer. (I avoid clothes that need to air dry, given that I've been living in bedbug-prone old university neighborhoods with shared laundry machines.) Socks get laid atop each other in a bin below (either the black pile or the white pile), and there's a second bin for other non-hangables for which wrinkling doesn't matter. There's also no-iron dress shirts. I don't often need them lately, but I'm told Brooks Brothers has occasional great sales on good ones, if you do. I don't use fabric softener, since there's research in the last few years suggesting that the VOCs are bad to be breathing.
- DanBC 8y ago
  > I don't use fabric softener Fabric softeners are also pretty bad for the clothing, and may contribute to excess microplastic shedding.

jetrink 8y ago

People don't comment on it out of politeness, but they do notice. Then, consciously and unconsciously, they draw negative inferences about you. They might suspect that you are not well organized or that you are lazy. You are free to be unbothered by that fact, but their reaction to your appearance is outside your control. It is a slight headwind in your life that makes your interactions with people more difficult than they have to be.

toomuchtodo 8y ago
Surround yourself with better, less shallow people.
- organsnyder 8y ago
  Everyone makes snap judgments based on first impressions—the best people are just more self-aware to be able to recognize this in themselves and counteract it.
- sho 8y ago
  When you find a planet filled instead with these "better, less shallow people", let us all know. Until then, we're stuck on this one, where the GP's observations are 100% correct.
- deleted 8y ago
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- EliRivers 8y ago
  One could argue that the people who notice are better people. Turning one's personal preferences into morality doesn't really help.
- scarejunba 8y ago
  It's just marketing. For $50 and ten minutes a week for the local cleaners you can appeal to both. Why close off your market?
- krageon 8y ago
  If you actually try surrounding yourself with only people that will not see this, I think you will come out disappointed at the size of your social circle. Not to mention that you usually don't get to pick the people you work with. Lots of things in your life touch upon the lives of people that you can't select for. That means it will be inconvenient at some point when you look bad.

neilv 8y ago

My quality of life improved when I started hanging almost all of my clothes, on coat hangers in the closet, and got rid of my dresser that required tedious weekly folding. Almost everything is wrinkle-free, at least in my climate, if I hang it immediately out of the dryer. (I avoid clothes that need to air dry, given that I've been living in bedbug-prone old university neighborhoods with shared laundry machines.) Socks get laid atop each other in a bin below (either the black pile or the white pile), and there's a second bin for other non-hangables for which wrinkling doesn't matter. There's also no-iron dress shirts. I don't often need them lately, but I'm told Brooks Brothers has occasional great sales on good ones, if you do. I don't use fabric softener, since there's research in the last few years suggesting that the VOCs are bad to be breathing.

DanBC 8y ago
> I don't use fabric softener Fabric softeners are also pretty bad for the clothing, and may contribute to excess microplastic shedding.