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" The online dating world has spoken: Women hate that baggy suit that you&amp;#039;re wearing in your profile picture. At least, that&amp;#039;s the case according to custom suiting label Arden Reed, who teamed with OkCupid to conduct a four-month, international survey that was posted on their blog today. Here&amp;#039;s the setup: The same guy was shot in two different suits \u2014 a tailored one and a boxy, off-the-rack one \u2014 and then the photos were featured in two otherwise identical profiles that were created and left dormant on the site, the hope likely being that women would reach out to the guy in the fitted tailoring and ignore the slob (this is a study from a suiting company, remember).  So, yeah, there was probably more than a little bias from the researchers here. Regardless, the findings were pretty much what we of the style-minded variety would expect: Women were much more responsive to the profiles featuring the test subject in a smartly tailored suit. Three-and-a-half times more likely to send out an unsolicited message and 2.3 times more likely to visit the profile in the first place, in fact. To break it down: This means that if you&amp;#039;re wading around in floppy, voluminous tailoring, you&amp;#039;ll probably die alone, possibly as a virgin. Which means that getting a suit that fits correctly (preferably from Arden Reed, we&amp;#039;re guessing) is integral to ever finding love. And getting married. And having children. And not dying along. It&amp;#039;s the suit, man. The suit. Arden Reed is preaching to the choir here, but still, this is an excellent reminder that our whole &amp;quot;your suit should fit you&amp;quot; shtick isn&amp;#039;t just some way to sell you clothing you don&amp;#039;t need. It&amp;#039;s deeper than that. It&amp;#039;s about trying to help you find love in this crazy world we live in. We just want to see you settle down with a nice girl, already. So sue us. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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