Result dressing
A friend of mine went to a party with her husband. There, they met a woman who was wearing a short, tight, black spandex dress and had a teddy bear pinned to her bottom. 'It's my bare behind,' giggled the woman inanely. My friend grimaced with embarrassment. Her husband, generally considered one of the most stylish men in London, was beguiled. Reader, he left his wife for the woman in the spandex dress with the teddy bear talking point. She got a result.
'Result wear' applies to any outfit which more or less guarantees action. It doesn't necessarily mean sex, but it usually does. Everyone's got something in their wardrobe that they put on in the full confidence that they are dressed for success. And it doesn't have to be the black leather mini skirt of legend - although that's always a good starting point. You don't want to be too subtle if you're dressing to attract a man. They're like dogs: they have a completely Pavlovian reaction to every cliche in the book.
Men don't like fashion. If you showed a straight man a photograph of a John Galliano couture original they wouldn't react at all - except to the price. What men like is clothes. Tarty clothes. They'll try and deny it but just spend an evening watching the boys watch the girls and this is what they like. In no particular order: high heels, short skirts, glimpse of bra, glimpses of bra and cleavage, tight white T-shirts, bum-hugging trousers, black knee-high boots, leather jeans, fluffy sweaters.
Don't wear all of the above at once because that would overdo it and give them the right impression. You have to choose whether you're working your top half or your bottom half. So if, for instance, you're offering cleavage and flirty-top-with-bra-views you need to combine that with a plain, long skirt or trousers. If you go for mini-skirt and boots, you wear something that doesn't scream 'wanton hussy' on the top. Apart from anything else, it isn't a good idea to wear an entire outfit that you need to spend the whole night worrying about. You could get confused and topple over.
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