essay sample for TOEFL/IELTS test Do you agree or disagree? Some people say that it is possible to tell a lot about a person’s culture and character from their choice of clothes. There is an old English saying about choice of clothing which says; good clothes open all doors. Fashion is instant language and its one of the ways that we present ourselves to the world. In our technology dominated world ironically we have less time for communication with other people, so in this situation our choice of clothing is a proper media by which we can show the world who we are and what is our educational, economic and cultural background. For instance a well-educated doctor’s sense of fashion is (and ought to be) totally different from that of a factory worker’s. Cultured and well-informed people could easily be distinguished from uneducated ones by their form of dress. In addition, our clothes help us to build a strong and positive first impression in our relationships, interviews, meetings and any other social aspect of our personal and professional life. Psychologists say “you do not have a second chance to build a good first impression”. And in my opinion our choices of clothing are our first and foremost means by which we can promote a positive image of ourselves in the eyes of others. Although some may argue that generalizing a person’s character and their social or cultural statues from their sense of fashion might bear negative consequences such as misunderstanding of their real character, results of various scientific tests especially psychological experiments disapprove this view. For example in a study conducted at Harvard university it has been shown that individual’s form of dress says a lot about their personality. In this study psychologically unstable people somehow showed their mental states in their form of dressing by using weird stuff as their clothing and healthy-minded people had normal and socially accepted forms of dressing. All in all, I believe that our clothes are a window to our character; they show our feelings and we socialize by means of our clothing. When we are happy we tend to wear light-colored ones, in funeral ceremonies we wear black or dark toned clothes, formal situations require formal attires and youth taste of fashion is totally different from elderly people.