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Johnson and Workman (1994) studied the extent to which victim dress affects judgments of responsibility for sexual harassment.
Since girls are increasingly sexualized, to determine if sexualized dress affects how girls are perceived by others Graff et al. (2012) designed an experiment wherein they manipulated the sexualizing aspects of the clothing of a 5th grade girl.
The social psychology of dress is concerned with how an individual's dress affects the behavior of self as well as the behavior of others toward the self (Johnson & Lennon 2014).
While none of these three studies articulated a specific theory to guide their research, Adams and Galinsky outlined an enclothed cognition framework, which explained that dress affects wearers due to the symbolic meaning of the dress and the physical experience of wearing that dress item.
"I've had an ongoing interest in environmental art, and working in the theater as a clothes designer opened me up to the idea that the way people dress affects their psychology," Dextras told AOL Weird News.
How you dress affects people's perceptions of your working abilities.
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Results showed that revealing dress affected judgments of all dependent variables except competency.
Finally and most importantly revealing dress affected judgments of sexualizing traits and this was a moderate effect.
So to extend the enclothed cognition framework, we suggest that for dress to affect the wearer, the context of the experimental task needs to be such that the meaning of the dress item is salient.
"Dress does affect orderliness," said Susan James, a spokeswoman at Peddie.
"It is amazing how a celebrity's choice of dress can affect a collection," says Chauchi.
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