https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:37:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541751 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:55:14 +0000 Aziraphale 541751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, I occasionally receive compliments, and I'm always glad to hear them -- from men or from women. </p> <p>If a stranger commented on part my anatomy, that would be totally different; that's both annoying and off-putting. Those types of comments have the potential to be sexual in nature. I can't remember the last time it happened, however. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541747 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:46:29 +0000 MsMary 541747@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would NOT like it if a stranger told me he "really liked my leather skirt." For me the ick factor is too high, given that a lot of men have fetishy-type interest in leather. In fact, generally I would not appreciate a strange man singling out aspects of my appearance and commenting on them. It seems way too intrusive to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541746 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:43:59 +0000 Vildy 541746@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ohh yeah, Chewy Spaghetti, I'm with you. Though I've said I don't prefer compliments, it's okay if the guy is smiling, doesn't break his stride and continues walking past me. But if he were standing next to me making conversation.... eeuw. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541744 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:42:23 +0000 rachylou 541744@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Clothes/outfits I get compliments on. I enjoy them... unless they're from a man with clearly no interest in style. Then you know he's socially awkward and is gonna go right past asking you out to coffee and tell you how much he's saved up and ask you to marry him. And of course then you have to be crushing to him, which never feels good. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541738 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:33:30 +0000 chewyspaghetti 541738@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Compliments from a woman don't bother me, or even a flamboyantly gay man. Compliments from a man who appears to be straight eeks me out a bit, though. It just always makes me wonder what is at the root of it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541731 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:17:57 +0000 Janet 541731@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've gotten compliments on outfits, clothes, hair and accessories from strangers (male and female), but never makeup. My makeup is pretty subtle though. </p> <p>Compliments don't bother me, whether they're general or on a specific item, as long as they're genuine and appropriate in tone. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541725 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:09:21 +0000 biscuitsmom 541725@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ive gotten compliments on my hair and jewelry, but not clothing/makeup.....hmmm, am I doing something wrong in dressing? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541550 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:02:17 +0000 Anonymous 541550@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am aware some people don't like compliments. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541405 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:26:13 +0000 Vildy 541405@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've never received compliments on my makeup and I wouldn't want any. I do get<br /> compliments on my eyes, my hair. </p> <p>I do get compliments on clothing items and from men, as well. But I don't like this.<br /> From any person. I'm a big subscriber to Goffman's theory of the presentation of self in everyday life: backstage/offstage and onstage. I consider the items that make up my<br /> outfit to be components of the offstage look: the time I took to put it together. But if someone is singling out particular pieces of it then the look fails for me.</p> <p>Now, in total, I have been told things like I'm a sharp dresser by men or that they liked the angle at which I cocked my hat. </p> <p>I used to have this amazing black silk knit midi tank dress plus little jacket. Completely decorous but, being knitted, it would shift as worn and tiny bits of nudity<br /> would show at times between stitches. I used to wear this to cocktail parties and some man would come up to me and struggle to say, 'I like your dress." I don't think they were really saying they liked the dress itself, but more the stunt of wearing it.</p> <p>But I'm more grown up now and don't feel like playing those games and if you wear it with a dark slip underneath then you're just another grandma. So I gave it away. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/receiving-compliments-on-clothesmake-up-from-men-you-dont-know#post-541399 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:17:08 +0000 Anonymous 541399@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Has this happened to you?</p> <p>I recently complemented a sales assistant in a shop on her lovely fingernails and nail polish and last year, brightened up a lady's day when I told her I reall like her leather skirt. </p>