I live in Dominican Republic, here people swear by the fashion. And like to show off.
I will travel to Taiwan the next week and live for a year.
I have prepared my clothes for every occasion:
To go at night, I have long sleeves shirt, jeans or pants, thin belt, semi formal shoes.
To go at day, I have polo shirts (short sleeves), jeans, casual belt, mocazin/casual shoes.
I have a feeling that the local people dont care about fashion. Not combining pieces, going to semi formal places with sport shoes and tshirts, etc.
Can dressing well backfire, because my date dresses poorly?
Dressing nice is never a bad thing. I have black teeth, a beer belly, no hair (apart from on my ass) and spinal dysfunction. To cut to the chase, I look like Quasimodo on crack.
I try to dress nice. It compensates for my inadequacies.
Short pants and flip-flops are for English teachers. I like to pretend I’m not one of them.
As regards “dating” (never understood that Americanism and never will), Taiwanese “chicks” are attracted to money and affluence like flies to jimipresley’s shit. No disrespect to my fellow Foromosans’ wives and girlfriends. A sweeping generalisation.
In short (pants), looking like you have STYLE will never be counterproductive.
Perhaps you could PM Mr Tommy for a more profound analysis. He is at the cutting edge of cruising fashion.
It is interesting to observe the fashion in Taiwan. Here has the women who has no fashion concern at all, they crash the sweatpants with a frilly top, green with purple, and there are the high couture ones that wears high brand dresses from head to top even high heels to go hiking on the mountains and have the New York rich bitch attitude even in dirty, dusty and unfashioned Fengshan lost corner of Taiwan. But there are the nice dressed women (I love these ones) that know style without going overboard with the cost, the ones that you can spot around wearing those girl-next-door fashion that cost little and looks great. As for men, a shirt, polo and a nice pleated pants are ok enough. Just don’t wear those summer flower hawaiian knee shorts and t-shirts matched with crocs for a dating if your target is a taiwanese woman. As someone has already said, most taiwanese women like guys with nice (translate as as rich) fashion sense.
Just don’t go overboard or the girl will feel rather embarrassed if you are too conspicuous -you are already quite visible for being a foreigner.
As with everything, dress according to the occassion. Keep it clean, keep it neat.
Good news: people here are not iron-freaks (no estan casados con una plancha).
And keep it down with cologne. Women in general here would find your Paco Rabane repulsive -locals in general terms do not like strong artificial smells, though they do not seem to mind “natural” ones as much as we do -sweat and others I will not mention.
Una lastima, ya se, pero colonias fuertes, eso si les puede parecer ofensivo.
[quote=“Icon”]Just don’t go overboard or the girl will feel rather embarrassed if you are too conspicuous -you are already quite visible for being a foreigner.
As with everything, dress according to the occassion. Keep it clean, keep it neat.
Good news: people here are not iron-freaks (no estan casados con una plancha).
And keep it down with cologne. Women in general here would find your Paco Rabane repulsive -locals in general terms do not like strong artificial smells, though they do not seem to mind “natural” ones as much as we do -sweat and others I will not mention.
Una lastima, ya se, pero colonias fuertes, eso si les puede parecer ofensivo.[/quote]
Yes, I forgot to mention the cologne, you can use some and your date will know that you are wearing that for the date and for her.
But I still remember one disastrous date with a well dressed guy at his home. He was wearing a clean and ironed shirt, nice pants, cologne. He was broiling steaks, making some salad, and everything was perfect, until his 2 big labradors came and hugged him AND LICKED HIM on his mouth, face and neck. He was happy, kissed them back (mouth to mouth) but I was disgusted and was trying to eat quickly so I could thank him and zap from his house before any attempt of kiss from him.
Anything other than slippers is a step up, because slippers won’t get you into most clubs. Slippers is basically the tie-breaker on who gets in and who doesn’t, so that keeps the old men from down the street from roaming in after some Taiwan beer.
[quote=“Mysticratboy”]I live in Dominican Republic, here people swear by the fashion. And like to show off. I will travel to Taiwan the next week and live for a year. I have prepared my clothes for every occasion:
Can dressing well backfire, because my date dresses poorly?[/quote]
NAh you can wear whatever you like. Just bring your mobile phone and you will have all the fashion accessory you will ever need.
[quote=“Icon”]Just don’t go overboard or the girl will feel rather embarrassed if you are too conspicuous -you are already quite visible for being a foreigner.
As with everything, dress according to the occassion. Keep it clean, keep it neat.
Good news: people here are not iron-freaks (no estan casados con una plancha).
And keep it down with cologne. Women in general here would find your Paco Rabane repulsive -locals in general terms do not like strong artificial smells, though they do not seem to mind “natural” ones as much as we do -sweat and others I will not mention.
Una lastima, ya se, pero colonias fuertes, eso si les puede parecer ofensivo.[/quote]
Im taiwanese, just grew up in Dominican Rep.
Yes my family told me they dont iron the clothes normally.
Its good for me
PS: Mucho gusto encontrar alguien que hable español.
