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I do not enjoy dressing well and I have no intrinsic interest in my appearance. Nevertheless, it is sometimes useful to engage in signalling when dealing with the outside world (e.g., superficial investors, superficial women). For this reason, I have an extrinsic interest in my appearance.

A service I'd pay for: I send you a photo of myself, my measurements and money. You make me look good.

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You can get that for free if you go to a good clothing store at a slow time of day.

> A service I'd pay for: I send you a photo of myself, my measurements and money. You make me look good.

I think this exists. I can't think of any names but I know I've heard of basically this concept.

Somewhat, perhaps, more cumbersome, but very workable, is to hire yourself a personal shopper for a day. Those are available at all major cities.

That person will guide you throughout the day while you go out and buy the stuff society at large would like to see you wear. End the day with a visit to a, from them, suggested barber and you're set.

This is probably closer to what I'm looking for, though ideally I'd be able to avoid the actual "going shopping with them" part. However, until my ideal service exists, I'll probably hire a personal shopper if I lack a girlfriend.

Also, there is sometimes a principal-agent problem; many personal shoppers work for the stores, and simply buy for you whatever the store is trying to get rid of.

Perhaps people like to suggest clothes/other stuff in a crowdsourced manner? Sort of like stackoverflow, but for appearance.

Nothing whatsoever like stackoverflow.

I'm hoping to say "dear fashionoverflow, please pick my clothes for me, email me when you are done. thx." If you say "dear stackoverflow, please do my homework for me, thx", you'll just be flamed.

Stackoverflow is programmers helping programmers, what I want is fashionistas helping nerds.

I'm not suggesting that you post "pick my clothes for me" on stackoverflow ;) I am suggesting the same type of site where people post a picture and a small description of themselves and people respond with clothing/haircut/other suggestions that people can vote on. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would find that fun to do, not at all like doing somebody's homework.

jcrew does this. Make an appointment in store and let them get to know your style over time.

http://www.jcrew.com/AST/FooterNavigation/personalshopper.js...

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