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Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Good looks = no fashion mistakes?

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Today I was out with a group of girls (just friends) and some guy was wearing an orange shirt with army fatigue shorts, it really looked bad. Now granted he was good looking and the girls said "He can get away with wearing that".

It seems like if you're good looking people think whatever you wear looks good. Yet if an ugly guy was wearing it he'd look like an idiot. Why is this?
 

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She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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spaceman2001 said:
Today I was out with a group of girls (just friends) and some guy was wearing an orange shirt with army fatigue shorts, it really looked bad. Now granted he was good looking and the girls said "He can get away with wearing that".

It seems like if you're good looking people think whatever you wear looks good. Yet if an ugly guy was wearing it he'd look like an idiot. Why is this?
Because they are too busy noticing the hot guy, clothes are a secondary thought. If an ugly guy is wearing that, the ugly blows right past them and the clothes become the primary thought.
 

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since when did american broads become fashion gods? aren't we talking about the same group that likes to wear flip-flops all the freaking time? american broads still remind me of linebackers (low to the ground and really wide).
 

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elmo said:
since when did american broads become fashion gods? aren't we talking about the same group that likes to wear flip-flops all the freaking time? american broads still remind me of linebackers (low to the ground and really wide).

in rich/metro areas american girls can be hot and dress really nice...

but yeah, in most smaller cities and ****ty burbs they definitely lack and kind of class/fashion sense.

but hey, it pretty much applies to american guys as well.
 

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spaceman2001 said:
Today I was out with a group of girls (just friends) and some guy was wearing an orange shirt with army fatigue shorts, it really looked bad. Now granted he was good looking and the girls said "He can get away with wearing that".

It seems like if you're good looking people think whatever you wear looks good. Yet if an ugly guy was wearing it he'd look like an idiot. Why is this?
Why do you think all the clothing companies in the world pay big money to have good looking people modeling for their cloths?
Because they look good, as long as the cloths are fit, no matter what they wear, they look good.
And they make us believe that it's because of what they are wearing. And we will pay big money to buy their cloths that are (most of the time) after all quite "common".
Have you guys ever had things like a Ralph Lauren polo (basically a simple polo with a guy riding a horse stamp on it) or a Yves Saint Laurent shirt (basically a nice but simple shirt with the famous "YSL" logo on it) or something similar from other famous brands? It's more about brand image than any intrinsic value.
 

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Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

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The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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its the way you carry your clothes. its the man who makes the clothes. every don juan should know that by now. early on, we are given a set of rules. then we are actually taught to break them. fashion is no exception.
 

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this is an interesting topic of discussion.
But i think Le Parisien may be making a good point...who knows it could be true.

fashion is very opinionated anyway, something can look great one day and the next day it's garbage.
 
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