I read an interesting article on the Daily Mail recently about the Competitive Dresser (CD). The CD is someone who’ll do almost anything to upstage her female friends and colleagues in the style stakes, usually overdressing for an event. Glamorous? Most certainly. Fashionable? Probably. Practical? Doubtfully. Comfortable? Hardly likely!
Appropriateness to the environment is an element of style which cannot be ignored, and competitiveness often results in the abandonment of appropriateness. Studies over the years show that women tend to dress for other women as opposed to their partners, members of the opposite sex and even themselves.
It’s a good question. Who do you dress for?
