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What's your hit rate when shopping for clothing (casual wear)?
Trying to figure out if I'm uniquely bad at this, or if it's normal and I just need to be buying more stuff to increase successes, or instead skill-up and reduce the failure rate. I think once I've walked out of a store with clothing, there's maybe a 50% chance per item that it actually works out for me.
That's insane, is this online shopping from unknown brands or emergency shopping right before an event?
My hit rate is 100%, because I'm picky and I only shop in person and I try everything on. I often leave without buying anything, because I know what fits and what looks work for my body type and aesthetic.
Either you need to simply walk away more often, or this is a skill issue. The latter can be condensed into a hand full of straight forward rules. "The cuff needs to be this long", "the shoulder seam needs to sit right on this bone", "lifting both arms must look just so", "squatting in new jeans must feel like that and show this much ankle". The exact values for all that can be gotten from YouTube or guides on manosphere blogs and /r/malefashionadvice. All 3 are dangerous, because half those people dress like retards, so look at the pictures and decide if you want to look like that.
I've added a couple of additional rules that save me lots of time by not even trying things on ("absolutely no synthetics, 1% is unacceptable", "the maximum size of a logo is 1/2", "no baggy/skinny cuts", "only plain, neutral colors"), but that's basically it.
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