how important to you is image?
 

yours and other people?

Very. I'm not sure what I'd do, if I lost my vision.

mine: more important than I let on, less important than what you think

other people:depends on what the expectations are of the person. If there aren't any, then not important, but if I'm supposed to meet with a great doctor and he shows up with one shoe, torn pants, a trenchcoat full of holes and dreadlocks (not the hip (as if that really exists) kind, the lack of bathing kind) then I would be worried, at least to the point of talking with him. Despite what everyone wants to think about themselves and others, image does matter, you can't help it, this was ingrained in you by the media and society since you were a baby. I wish society in general didn't put as much emphasis on image but they do and it is gonna rub off on you no matter how hard you fight it.

The Bard said all the world is a stage, and on it we each play many roles. Image is important as a way to communicate, and as a protection device. The image I put forth as a supervisor for a state Attorney General's Office is rather different from the one I put forth on stage with the Dead Air Fresheners.

I like to be comfortable about how I look. I like to look a little rough around the edges. I don't feel comfortable with the pretty boy look.

Image is pretty important.

you have to look good to up your standards of getting laid.

or at least thats why i choose to not wear cum cum stained ripped rest sweat pants when i go out.

"image isn't everything: obey your thirst"- grant hill

I hate being blurry

Not at all important. I think maybe for a brief period in my life ALMOST cared but it didn't get me anywhere. I've had the same girlfriend for 5 years, and she doesn't care about my image that much, so I've definitely gotten lazier. Fuck it.

I like to think that my personality is strong enough to make itself apparent regardless of whatever clothing or haircut or whatever I'm stuck into. Maybe it is the existentialist in me, but I care less about looking good for others (maybe if I'm doing something particularly formal or informal) and more about whether how I look makes sense to my personality. And, again, that is mostly a natural progression with little need for maintenance. But yes, image is important but I try to avoid disguises as much as possible.

Image is very important. Everything is on the surface anyway. There's no such thing as depth.

Image is everything. But so is context. Then again, what really matters is soul.

At the same time, nothing really matters. And what if it did?

if i had a gf these days i prolly wouldnt care about my appearence so much, but since im just goin out a lot and tryin to meet girls i like to look nice, i dont think theres anything wrong with wanting to look nice.

if there was no such thing as sex i think the whole population would be fat sweatpant wearing bed sore cleaning slobs.

But playing in puddles is so fun!

Image is why I wear skinny jeans instead of baggy ones. If I wore baggy ones, you guys would all say I'm a boring old man. Since I wear skinny ones, you can say I'm a boring old man with a midlife crisis, which makes me immensely more interesting.

No, seriously, in a way, I dress to feel good about myself. But it's not as important as other things.

Quite clever, but that doesn't work as an analogy. Water is penetrable.

So like if I'm having a shitty day, but I'm wearing my Levis 511s and Nautica polo shirt, I can still look in the mirror and say, "gmku, you look mahhvelous."

And people aren't? When one passes through the surface tesion (surface value), it is then we see whether a person is a puddle or an ocean.

I have a girlfriend and I still like to look good, as does she.

I never want to become that couple that look like shit and wear sweatpants around all day and get fat from shitty junk food just because I have no standards anymore because I'm 'taken'. That's to stop using your mind aswell.

If you feel you look good, then you'll feel good. One should not judge someone on their looks though, or anything for that matter.

I can go months without looking in a mirror. And yet my appearance is not shambly or anything. Most of it is routine.

Very. This is why I've come back simply to mark my teritory on this thread.

Yes, but about 8 years ago, baggy pants would have been "in", I suppose.
"Skinny" is much more flattering, and not only for the sake of reputation.

Flop, you are back. I missed you dearly, no pics of you? Let me go check.

what?

No, people aren't. You can only see, hear, sense what is on the surface. How can you tell someone's a puddle or an ocean? You can't look through someone. The surface is either pretty or it isn't. What people say and do is part of the surface, too, but it's equally important how they say and do it.

I think image is important, especially with teenagers, but I wouldn't say I'm too self-conscious.

personality is much more important.

The majority of very attractive people that i meet are douches.

That's very true.

I think it's a bit shallow to be hung up on someone's looks. But it helps if the person you like isn't bad to look at.

I'm basically a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but I guess image is sort of important to me in an inverse way. For example, I would never be caught wearing skinny jeans or a pink polo shirt or a little hankerchief tied around my neck.

Skinny jeans rule, dude.

I honestly don't put much stock in clothes, hair styles, etc. At least regarding myself. Saying that, I do admire those with the time, energy and insight to create something interesting for themselves. The problem is that too many image conscious people I've met have proven to have little else to them beyond that.

well, lets be honest here. looks are important, they are always the first thing you notice about a person. once you know someone, and grow to care about a person, thats when looks will be less important.

oh-- awesome!

welcome black floozie-- i've missed you-- well, as much as one can miss internet strangers. but yeah!

anyway, on the subject of this silly thread:

i care enough to have bought a fancy antenna

but not enough to pay monthly for cable.

i guess to a certain extent personal image and how we want to be perceived enters all of our conciousness.

Personal image at my age merely means recognising the need to wear black in order to partially disguise certain beer-belly issues.

and that.

I think its important to represent yourself accurately. If you feel the need to buy expensive clothes and where them, then you should because you have a need to do so.

If you don't, then you shouldn't.

I don't like to spend money on clothes, so I don't.

by what scale does one measure the importance of image?