Attractive clothing makes woman seem more intelligent

It feels like women are constantly being told what to wear in order to make them look better. Now, it has been claimed that wearing a short skirt, tight-fitting dress or low-cut top could mean you get taken more seriously.

Dr Alfredo Gaitan from the University of Bedfordshire gathered 64 students with an average age of 21 and showed them two sets of images of the same woman.

In the first, she wore a low-cut top, a mini skirt and a jacket, whereas in the other picture, she wore a dress that covered more of her skin.

They were then asked to rank her in terms of faithfulness, job status, morality, personality, willingness to have sex, and intelligence.

Contrary to previous studies which claim revealing clothing makes women appear less intelligent, the results found that it was the sexualised clothing which resulted in higher intelligence and faithfulness ratings. There was no significant change in the other factors based on what the woman was wearing.