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However, if you are not high-status and you wear very high-status clothing for sexually strategic reasons, your strategy may backfire. For example, wearing a tuxedo to a punk rock show. Certain types of ornamentation signals religious belief or cultural heritage. Certain torso clothing signals [[personality]] and values. | However, if you are not high-status and you wear very high-status clothing for sexually strategic reasons, your strategy may backfire. For example, wearing a tuxedo to a punk rock show. Certain types of ornamentation signals religious belief or cultural heritage. Certain torso clothing signals [[personality]] and values. | ||
Buttoned shirts, collared shirts, and pocketed shirts signal [[authority]] or prestige in Westernized countries. Suits signal wealth and [[dominance]] in most countries nowadays. | Buttoned shirts, collared shirts, and pocketed shirts signal [[authority]] or prestige in Westernized countries. Suits signal wealth, business-acumen, and [[dominance]] in most countries nowadays. | ||
== Color == | == Color == | ||