Answer:
Dress is considered an aspect of non-verbal communication and has social significance for the audience. Dress also includes the things that people wear such as jewelry, ties, handbags, hats and glasses. Clothing conveys nonverbal clues about a speaker’s personality, background and financial status. Your clothing style can demonstrate your culture, mood, level of confidence, interests, age, authority, values and sexual identity.
Consider how clothing style might send a negative message. A sloppy appearance, messy hair and wrinkled clothes sends the message, “I don’t care,” while appropriate attire demonstrates the importance of the occasion. A tight dress with a low-cut neckline might appear attractive but not convey the right message for a serious public speaking event. Appropriate dress changes based on the occasion and has changed over history. For example, the “liberated” attire of the suffragette campaigning for voting rights in the early 1900s seems formal and “unliberated” today, but was a daring statement at the time.
