I follow Clinton Kelly of What Not to Wear on Facebook, and he popped out this gem today:

I stopped filming “What Not to Wear” almost 10 months ago now. Honestly
it feels like it was 3 weeks ago, and for some reason, I’ve had a
thought coursing through my mind lately. I figured I would write it down
and share it on Facebook, because … well, why the hell not. Here goes:


I don’t care what you wear. I really don’t. And I don’t care what you
think of what I wear. I really don’t. I care what I wear. And I think
you should care about what you wear.

Your style can make
you happy, and even though I don’t know you, I’d like you to be happy,
because as a human being, you deserve to be happy. Clothes won’t make
you happy in that really deep, profound way. A solid core of happiness, I
believe, comes from expressing love to those who deserve it and
accepting love from others because you know you deserve it.

Nevertheless, clothes can make you happy in an important way.


Your personal style is a form of nonverbal communication, just like
your facial expressions and your body language. If someone were to smile
while giving you some really bad news, you would feel especially
uncomfortable. If an acquaintance invited you to her house for a
friendly lunch and then sat with her arms folded and legs crossed, you
would think something was amiss. Similarly, when your clothes do not
match who you are as a person, you and others around you experience a
lack of harmony, a dissonance.

It’s hard to convince others --
but more importantly yourself -- that you are a vibrant human being
when you look like you can barely convince yourself to roll out of bed
in the morning.

And for the record, dissonance works both ways.
A $5,000 suits doesn't prove to others -- or yourself -- that you're a
good guy if in fact, you're actually a jackass.

I guess I want
you to know that you control your nonverbal messaging. And when you feel
as though the message you want to be sending to the rest of the world
is in harmony with the message you are actually sending, you feel more
confident, more at peace, and quite frankly, happier.

Wise words, man. Wise words!!