Personal grooming FAIL
Advertisementgoo Ranking have another fun FAIL survey, this time looking at what personal grooming in the opposite sex takes you aback, for men looking at women and women looking at men.
Demographics
Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Ranking result
Q: What personal grooming failures in women takes you aback? (Sample size=528, male)
Rank Score 1 Dandruff on the shoulders 100 2 Dirty nails 84.5 3 Standing on the heels of shoes 57.9 4 Holes in socks, tights 54.0 5 Dirty inside of shirt collar 52.1 6 Dirty shirt cuffs 46.6 7 Dragged through a hedge backwards hair 34.8 8 Wrinkly shirt, trousers 33.2 9 Dirty shoes 30.5 10 Shirt tails hanging out of trousers, skirt 30.2 Q: What personal grooming failures in men takes you aback? (Sample size=549, female)
Rank Score 1 Dandruff on the shoulders 100 2 Dirty nails 77.0 3 Dirty inside of shirt collar 61.1 4 Standing on the heels of shoes 58.9 5 Dirty shirt cuffs 55.0 6 Wrinkly shirt, trousers 44.3 7 Holes in socks 40.2 8 Wearing clothes not matching the season 38.9 9 Wearing the wrong size of clothes 38.0 10 Shirt tails hanging out of trousers 33.9
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wow, the standing on heels of shoes thing is something even tourists do a lot! had no idea it was so prevalent – are Western shoes just not built right for Japanese feet I wonder?
How do you “stand on the heels of shoes”? As opposed to what – standing on tip-toe? Turning your shoes upside down and stand on the uppers? I don’t understand this one at all.
They fold in the backs of the shoes (the heels) and squash them with the heels of their feet. Only in shoes without heels – I can relate to the heel blisters caused by a new pair of flats, but that’s why you squash them before wearing them.
Ahh, _that_ thing. Yep, it does look a little, well, unkempt in the same juvenile way as a deliberately half-untucked shirt, or pants hanging half-way below the butt or similar.
The first image hit I got for this was Ronaldo. He basically gets paid millions to wear shoes so if he wants to get shoes that fit properly he can. It must be some weird fashion thing.