Starflower
Love at First Sight – but Lose the Shirt!
You’ve fallen in love at first sight and it’s all going splendidly – until your crush turns up for the third date wearing yellow dungarees, a purple sequinned minidress, an ill-fitting plaid shirt or (insert your own personal nightmare item of clothing here). You think back to the night you fell in love. At first sight, he or she was so tastefully dressed, but in this outfit you’re worried about being seen on the street together.
What to do? Abandon ship and never fall in love at first sight again until a thorough wardrobe-inspection has been performed? Turn a blind eye and hope that love at first sight is, indeed, blind (if the colour of that horrid sweater doesn’t blind you first)?
Why not perform a wardrobe-exorcism? There are many subtle – and some not-so subtle – ways of making your crush a better-dressed person.
A good strategy for the situation described is to feign the onset of heavy lusting pangs, cut the date short and take your crush home, where you tear his or her clothes off with such passion, they can never be worn again.
That’s a temporary solution, but what if your crush proceeds to arrive for future dates in similarly tasteless clothes? Pointing out what you don’t like may offend and could be counter-productive. Instead, start by giving compliments when your crush is well-dressed. Make sure to add “you should wear that more often!” You could also start buying clothes you like as gifts.
Finally, if all else fails, suggest a wardrobe spring-clean. In order for that to work, you will have to join in, sorting through your own wardrobe at the same time. You could take turns, help each other and maybe you’ll find out which outfits you should get rid of before your next date! At this stage, it’s okay to be honest and actually tell your crush which clothes you don’t like – maybe you’ll fall in love at first sight all over again when you see your new, improved crush!
