An Observation

I realized, walking to and from class today, that if you were to pick a random woman on campus and describe her clothes to me, I could tell you with a reasonably high degree of fidelity what she looked like.  

This may seem obvious, but the actual results seem counterintuitive. 

For example: If you said she was wearing a dress that showed off her legs and had her hair done very nicely, I could tell you she was fat.  

If you said she was dressed fashionably, in jeans and boots, with layers up top, I could tell you she was skinny. 

There is more to it, pieces I'm still putting together.  I was noticing that all the pretty women that caught my eyes were largely 'butter-faces'. Then I realized it was the clothes. The skinny girls with nice faces dress more casually, more athletically (though not necessarily implying they are more athletic).  A cute but...ah... shapeless girl shows off more skin, almost perversely calling attention to their defects. 

That last bit might confuse you.  An example then: I saw a girl walking to class wearing four inch wedges (so not a fatty), but wearing hideous printed slacks that were shaped somewhat like pajama pants, a hot pink tube top that bared her midriff, but covered with a light jacket of the sort only women buy, you know the kind: It doesn't do a fucking thing to keep you warm. 

So, using science to predict what she looks like, you have a cute woman with decent tits, not fat but sliding there faster than she'd like to admit. 

Hm... yup.  Sounds right.  Flaunting her worst asset, the shapeless waistline, covering her legs and breasts with colorful shapeless cloth that is somehow fashionable... 

But it actually makes some sense.  The shapely but not pretty girls play up their femenity as much as possible, but don't feel the need to flaunt it, so they go for fashion, competing with the other girls and following the herd. The truly pretty girls go for more comfortable fashions, content that they don't need to try to get attention, while the fat girls who haven't given up maximize their attention by ignoring the fashionable look and flaunting their womanliness and interest... dressing for the boys instead of the girls. The average but cute girls... I dunno, I guess they're splitting the difference?  I mean: If they knew what they were doing they wouldn't be average.  With the big push for fat acceptance (though it is entirely a lie...) they don't mind flaunting, like they are daring you to judge their lack of concern for their looks (while secretly very concerned with their looks). They don't want to flaunt their actual assets for fear of being viewed as sluts?  That's my hypothesis, but I'm not a mind reader. 

Now, don't get me wrong: There are plenty of other looks on the girls on campus.  The plain janes that don't try abound. Mostly they dress in jeans and shoes instead of jeans and boots, with hipster layers up top. There are the dykes and soon-to-be dykes that have given up on me (or never wanted them), and plenty of fat, old, or old and fat women in shapeless swaths of cloth and so forth.  I just don't want to try and do an exhaustive list of what the predominant trends are for every woman I see. Besides: Heels, ugly print slacks and tube top girl sort of threw me for a loop until I realized what exactly was going on (see above).  Like the fat girls unconcerned with showing off their shapeless sausage legs if it means some desperate boys will flatter them, she flaunts her stomach but plays it more coy with her (large) breasts and (from what I could tell) attractive legs.  

No doubt some of this is the visible signs of position jockeying among the young and available women, status signaling for the herd. Other elements are compensating for flaws, which is why the plain or even ugly faced girls with tight bodies dress so nice compared to the more pretty tight-bodied girls. 

Ideally, that means if you want to pick a girl out from across the room, or blindly, go by her outfit. If its fashionable, somewhat tight but sporty/comfortable, chances are she's hot and pretty.  If its really fashionable and somewhat impractical (heels) she's hot but plain faced.  If its fashionable and hideous she's cute but lazy, and if its unabashedly feminine she's a fat girl.