Does clothing reveal a persons’ character or attitude? This has been a question asked for quite some time among the people around the world. I came across a variety of answer for this question. But this should be viewed especially in terms of culture background.

a suit or a women with an expensive dress definitely the person would be treated nicely. Why does this happen? Does this means a person with a neat dressing labeled as a person who owns good manners.

This view is different in terms of our culture background. For example an Asian usually thinks clothing plays an important role in deciding a persons’ attitude. For Asians whenever they see a person with awkward or simple clothing they tend to avoid communicating with them. It has been buried in their minds that people with non-expensive clothing are not so-called a “good people”.

It is very weird that quite a number of Asian people think so shallow. For example this is a real incident explained by one of my lecturer. He went to a government department for some enquiries. That time he was just wearing jeans and T-shirt. When he called out for enquiries, one of the staff responded negatively towards him. The staff replied in a rude manner. The next day when he came back again but this time in a suit and tie, the staff responded very politely and positively. This shows the people value a person by their clothing. How shallow could they be?

Clothes can’t tell a persons’ character and people should realize this. A character can be only judged by communicating with a person and not by looking at their clothing. I hope the Asians will open their mind more broadly and see the world in a more positive way.