A Guide to Nerd Guys Meeting and Dating Women: Accessories
Accessories is actually pretty simple for guys. We don’t have the jewelry options and requirements that women have. As a matter of fact, DO NOT ASSUME the accessory requirements women have. As a rule, stay away from rings, necklaces, and earrings (unless you are into piercing or are a rock star). Honestly, while some guys can pull these items off, for the rest of us it is like jumping out of a plane and hoping the thing on our backs is a parachute not a knapsack.
Unless your ring can give you powers like GL’s, stay away (image from the comic book t shirts)
The main accessory item for guys tends to be your wristwatch. The two things all women notice (remember those near-instantaneous evaluations women can make? A lot of it is based on these two) are shoes and watches. All guys should own a watch, and if you tell yourself that you just use your cell phone know that you are immediately stuck into the “loser tech geek” by a lot of women.
There are any number of watches out there, so here are a few guidelines. First of all, your watch should be metal or metal and leather, not plastic (nor a gift from some kind of meal. I don’t care how humorous it is. You might think you are being quirky and weird but what you are really transmitting is broke loser). It should not calculate anything. The more features it has, the weirder you look. Stay away from diving watches unless you actually dive. In general less is more. Simple is good. Personally I am a huge fan of Movado and love my Movado watch.
As for how much you need to spend, I would say at least $350 and as much as $1K. Sounds like a lot but a good watch will last you at least five years, so not so much over time. I have no proof of the validity of this, but a theory I cooked up is you should probably spend about 1% of your annual salary on a watch. In other words, if you make $35K drop $350, $100K drop $1K. I know this is just my thought process, but I can’t help but imaging this is the kind of equation that pops up in a woman’s head.
Other accessories include wallet, business card holder, keys, and cell phone.
Your wallet should be leather or leather-like (if you don’t do leather) and black. That simple IMO. DO NOT do Velcro, canvas, anything with writing on it (yes, we all saw Pulp Fiction and the Bad M-F-er wallet. Not as cool as Samuel L. Jackson made it seem), or anything with a chain attached, unless you are a biker (motorcycle) or a mailman.
A business card holder is something I highly recommend. I go with stainless steel. I also can’t stress the importance of having business cards on you at all times. Only losers don’t have business cards. Also, business cards are the perfect item for the “Hail Mary” pass at a girl (more on that later). If your job does not give you cards have them printed. Vistaprint does a great job dirt cheap. If you don’t believe me about how cool business cards and holders can be check out this scene from American Psycho.
It might seem weird that I include keys in this post, as we all have keys, but this is one item that nerd guys screw up all the time. Basically, your keys should be as small as possible. Guys who have huge rings of keys always end up looking like weird conspiracy nuts. Your keyring should consist of one small fob of some kind (go nuts on this. Personally I have a miniature Death Star on mine), car keys, house keys, work keys, and that’s about it. If you are a big beer drinker add a church key, but your keyring should always be as minimum as possible. Also, NEVER, EVER hang your keys on your belt for any reason.
Finally, cell phone. It used to be another item where smaller was better, but now bigger is better. Honestly, if you don’t have a smart phone capable of sending complex and fast texts and emails you look like a loser. I don’t know about the validity of this survey, but there is an article floating around the internet to the effect that women are more likely to give their number to a guy with an iPhone than one without. Whether or not this is true, there is a perception that iPhones equals more success and stability, so why not?
That’s it for appearance (although I might throw in the odd blurb as they occur to me). Next post we get into more actual meeting women with Where to Go to Meet Women! OMG! See you soon.
