A Guide to Nerd Guys Meeting and Dating Women: Clothing Basics
This section is a little rudimentary in my mind, but I know there are guys out there for whom this stuff might not be as obvious as it is to a lot of others. And like I said before, most of these mistakes I have made in my life, usually over and over again.
These are basic clothing rules, and should be your guidelines at all times.
1. Underwear should be worn at all times. I cannot impress upon you how important this is. Women can get away with no underwear. You cannot. Going commando can do a lot of bad. I don’t want to get into a lot of graphic detail with the kinds of things that can go wrong for the lack of undergarments, except to say it can have social impacts you can never wash away. Also, once as a kid I caught my junk in the fly of my pants, and it was the most embarrassing injury of my life. If you are out of clean underwear use you last clean pair to run out and buy more, or better yet do your laundry.
2. Which brings us to our next clothing basic rule: do your laundry. Do not wear clothing repeatedly without washing it. A rank t shirt can undo all the good your regular bathing has done. Also, fold your laundry so it doesn’t look like you slept in it. If a label says “Dry clean only” first of all congratulations on having a high quality garment and second take it to a dry cleaner. When I am feeling lazy and have money I take all my laundry to a Wash-n-fold laundry and two days later the hand them back to me clean and folded like magic. Iron your shirts.
3. If a pair of pants has loops for a belt, they should have a belt in them.
4. Never wear clothes with holes in it. It is true that a pair of pants can look cool with some holes in it, but if you could correctly pick out the right torn clothes to look cool odds are you don’t need this blog.
5. The same thing for stains. If you have to decide which jacket goes with the marinara stain, get rid of it.
6. Sandals are a bad idea, unless you are going to the beach. Sandals are what guys in relationships wear, after they have reached the point they can safely not care anymore. Also, NEVER EVER WEAR SANDALS WITH SOCKS! Seriously. Those guys make me want to run them over with my car. Finally, Crocs suck. I don’t care how comfortable they are.
That’s pretty much it. We’ll get into more specifics in future posts.
Don Corleone knows how to look sharp (from the movie t shirts).
