Do women dress for themselves, for other women, or for men?

Many psychologists believe that women dress not for other women nor for men, but for their own subconscious.

If this is the case, a woman’s clothes may be a subtle body language message that can reveal many things about her.

For example, a happily married woman may select extremely seductive clothes just to make her husband jealous, to make him aware that she can still attract other men. An obsession with such clothes can be a sign of very basic insecurity about herself and a need to bolster her own ego.

A woman who gathers many more hats and pairs of shoes than she can logically use is often someone who is overweight and frustrated in her attempts to buy attractive clothes in her size. She settles for things like hats and shoes because shoe and hat size is no indication of her unhappy physical condition.

An extremely expensive wardrobe can be an unconscious boast to the world that a woman’s husband is well-to-do and can support her. The husband usually goes along, secretly happy, though he feels the need to complain. After all, this kind of wife is an advertisement for his own success.

These reasons, of course, are not true for all women. As with all body communication, you can’t generalize.

Women’s reasons for dressing the way they do are as varied as women’s natures. But an awareness of the possible reasons we dress in a certain way may open our eyes to a greater understanding of ourselves.