BTDT wrote:
Yes. How good you look and how well you socialize makes a big difference in how accepting people are of the advice you give. I've seen it first hand by dressing poorly for decades. Now that I have a nice hourglass figure and nice wardrobe people treat me much differently. I can wear tight fitting XS clothes that show off my thin waist. Now people will ask for advice. I look like I have worthwhile advice to give.
It's funny, I've found the opposite. When I dressed badly with no idea what suited me, I was a lot more popular with other women. I suppose they didn't feel threatened. Now I look neat, pretty, stylish, I get so much antagonism from women! They generally dislike me at first sight.
Of course men were the other way round!
When I looked a mess, I was invisible. When I learned how to dress better, suddenly they all wanted to talk to me. Which was embarrassing when it was my friends' husbands! Many men seem to feel threatened by me though.
Can't win, whatever I do
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