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Researchers say that who do not follow " fashion" are more respected. PhD. student Silvia Bellezza and two professors examined how we view the status and competence of people whose dress is different. They discovered that the more people dress, the more respect they get. Participants in the said they thought people with "weirder" fashion were more . Rather than think of someone scruffily dressed, many people believe that dressing down is a sign of . Ms Bellezza said: "If you're willing to deviate, there are ."

Bellezza conducted to test how people reacted to non-conformity. People dressed at expensive in Milan. One group wore sports clothes, while the other dressed in outfits. The sales assistants thought the ones in the sports were the bigger spenders. In another , students rated an professor in a T-shirt above a professor in a . Bellezza says celebrity CEOs who dress down may have changed how we think. Examples of this are Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hoodies and the Steve Jobs' jeans and .

 


 
 

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