Dopamine Dressing: How to Dress For Your Happiness

Question

Dopamine dressing involves wearing clothes with the intention of boosting your mood. Color, style and texture can all have psychological associations and are often tied to memories.

Comments

The website you sited seems to have a lot of good reasons as to why dressing according to your mood can affect your dopamine levels and it comes from a reliable source so I believe it! From the source I've found, it says that there hasn't been a ton of research and tests put into this theory but people have seen a lot of different behavioral responses so this claim is most likely the truth. Here's the source that I read and found a lot of good information from:

https://fherehab.com/learning/dopamine-dressing#:~:text=Dopamine%20dressing%20can%20help%20improve,your%20overall%20feelings%20of%20wellness.

Answer 1

This claim is true. The colors you surround yourself with can have a major impact on their psyche, and historically, colors have been used to heal. For example, red is associated with feeling grounded and safe, orange with emotion and creativity and indigo with intuition, she says. I was skepitcal about having certain textures can be tied to memories, but this is actually true according to the link below. The link included is a section in a textbook called Fashion Theory, which i think can very closely relate to this claim.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362704X.2017.1290204

Comments

This is a good fact check, but I find the article's lack of statistical or quantifiable information to be concerning and in need of expansion. As was made clear in the article there is a lot of subjectivity and variation in how people feel about different colors or textures, as it has a lot to do with childhood and memory. However, a study or examination of how this psychology can be observed scientifically would benefit you in fact checking this claim. Here's one study by Guo Hui, Asliza Aris, and Rose Dahlina Rusli I found that seemed to cover this topic: https://www.clausiuspress.com/assets/default/article/2023/12/31/article_1704031850.pdf

---

Your source link seems to be focused on a different area of study; it doesn't seem relevant unless I'm missing something.

Answer 2

Though I was skeptical of this claim because of the lack of qualified sources, it has proven to be true by almost every other commentary blog I used for research. Brighter colors can help release dopamine--the hormone that makes you feel happy-- and helps boost self-esteem. In a similar way, certain colors are associated with positive emotions; yellow is associated with happiness, green with serenity and balance, and pink with love. 

https://www.oxygenboutique.com/blogs/news/can-wearing-bright-colours-make-you-happier?srsltid=AfmBOop7azEaci516dnSH7AIDlLBh5l2H700QSkknrO1EZocEHJfQtB8

Answer 3

The article 'Dopamine Dressing: How to Happiness' by Lo Styx is talking about how dressing in certain things that include textures you like, or colors that are more vibrant are more likely to boost one's mood. I agree with this statement because often if I am not wearing something that makes me feel good and confident my mood and the way I act and go about my day will be completely altered, "For many people, the colors they surround themselves with can have a major impact on their psyche, and historically, colors have been used to heal", this quote from the article is stating that what you surround yourself is what will heal you. Another example I correlate with this is how music can also have a big hold on one's mood and alter how they feel.

Answer 4

This claim caught my eye and I was interested if there was any actual evidence backing this theory. After reading the original article that you linked I was agreeing with it but I felt as if that was not the best source to use since there was nothing that was factually backing the claims being made. I was still interested if there were any more reliable sources backing this and in an article from Howard University News Service, stated that  "A 2012 study conducted by Karen Pine, a renowned researcher in developmental psychology, discovered that “what a woman chooses to wear is heavily dependent upon her emotional state” and “clothing doesn’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood too.”.  I found this article gave more scientific backing considering that they did have a study to back up the facts they were portraying. This article also has many more reliable sources as it is from a university and was able to credit more reliable sources within the article itself. 

https://hunewsservice.com/news/color-theory-meets-fashion-with-dopamine-dressing/

Answer 5

This claim seems pretty broad off the bat, it seems somewhat far-fetched but the article provided seems reasonable. The author lists the various ways that what you are wearing could affect your mood like color or texture. For example, they used a source from a trusted scientist to back the claim that colors correlate with increased dopamine. I further researched the topic and found it to be highly likely. One research experiment used the term “enclothed cognition” which states that what you wear affects certain tasks: A pretest found that a lab coat is generally associated with attentiveness and carefulness. We therefore predicted that wearing a lab coat would increase performance on attention-related tasks.” (sciencedirect.com). This shows another emotional that there is a correlation between the two. This leads me to believe there definitely is a connection between mood and outfit choice. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103112000200