"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Need advice for what to wear?

timmylivingalie

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I have been in the jeans t shirt rut for awhile it is probably hurting. Need some fashion advice.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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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Boilermaker

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start with jeans and real shirts ... then you'll graduate to something nicer
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Jitterbug

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Get in good shape and go to a classy men's store for advices and fine fitting clothes. Start with European fit for both shirts and pants - seems to be the only fit for men who are athletic and V-shaped. The rest are ill-fitting cuts for fatties or skeletal hipster homos.

If you're in bad shape, you'll look bad regardless of what you wear.

kinowear is a red pill website / business with plenty of good advices plus a consulting service for men's fashion.
 

Down Low

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The easiest transition at this time of year is to khakis and polo shirts. When it's over 90 degrees, cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirts. Upgrade the sneakers to boat shoes. Upgrade the flip flops to sandals with interesting leather work, and get a belt that matches or almost matches the sandals. Accessorize with subtlety: get an analog watch but avoid like the plague those bling-bling divers' watches that mark you as a loud, obnoxious wannabe.

Jitterbug said:
Get in good shape and go to a classy men's store for advices and fine fitting clothes. Start with European fit for both shirts and pants - seems to be the only fit for men who are athletic and V-shaped. The rest are ill-fitting cuts for fatties or skeletal hipster homos.

If you're in bad shape, you'll look bad regardless of what you wear.
Mesomorphs' strong prejudice for themselves is laughable. Slavery selects for mesomorphs, primitive tribalism and traditional subsistence farm society select for endomorphs, and modern capitalism selects for ectomorphs. Wherever in the world we see a preponderance of mesomorphs, there are now, or were until very recently, backward, anti-intellectual slave societies. That's retrograde -- considering that the main feature that distinguishes humans is their intellect.
 

FairShake

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Down Low said:
The easiest transition at this time of year is to khakis and polo shirts. When it's over 90 degrees, cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirts. Upgrade the sneakers to boat shoes. Upgrade the flip flops to sandals with interesting leather work, and get a belt that matches or almost matches the sandals. Accessorize with subtlety: get an analog watch but avoid like the plague those bling-bling divers' watches that mark you as a loud, obnoxious wannabe.
My man...that is a great way to start! Really goes over the basics and allows someone to build on if they choose too.

OP: Don't forget Henleys (if you're in good shape), pearl clasp cowboy shirts (they are getting huge now), loafers and/or chukka/desert boots. All relatively simple purchases that aren't hard to incorporate into your wardrobe but that make a man look better.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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