# Do you dress and groom for yourself or for others?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 21, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dress-and-groom-for-yourself-or-for-others/987348 "2023-07-21T12:19:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-dress-and-groom-for-yourself-or-for-others/987348/33 "2023-07-21T16:28:19Z")

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I just really, really _like_ clothes, especially ones with interesting colours, textures and cuts.

Jeans and polos just aren’t going to cut it for that. It’s the fashion equivalent of the “I eat only for fuel” side, versus my “taking less than 30 minutes to eat is a wasted meal” side, in this thread:

> [@How much time do you spend preparing and eating an average meal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-time-do-you-spend-preparing-and-eating-an-average-meal/986455/31):
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> On average, about an hour to 90 minutes prep+cooking. But the long tail of that is … [very long](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-complicated-meal-youve-ever-prepared/980588/25) And a meal eaten in less than 30 minutes is a meal wasted.

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