Confidence Impresses Women

Tips for men in a relationship. Alright, just a really quick tip today. And what is that tip? Well, that tip is in regards to confidence, and the effect it tends to have on women.
A lot of guys often wonder how they can impress a woman that they like, that they want to ask out, or that they just started dating. They try to figure out the best ways to impress these women and come across as an incredibly interesting, great guy. Well, the truth is that the best way for you to impress a woman is to not actually try to impress her.
Look, we all know that women like confidence, and are attracted to guys who are confident. So what is confidence? Its self-assurance and a sense of self-esteem. It makes you feel like you’re worth something, and like you’re an interesting person just the way you are without going out of your way and doing more than you’re supposed to do.
So, when you’re not trying to impress and come off as too smart, too rich, and too sophisticated, then you’ll be much more impressive to a woman than when you’re bragging about yourself, talk too much, and try too hard.

World’s Most Expensive Men’s Clothing

When playing Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show (1984-1992), Bill Cosby most often wore shirts with loud, geometric, swirling and/or patchwork patterns. This habit gave rise to the term “Cosby sweater,” used to describe similar sweaters. In 2008, Hello Friend and the Ennis William Cosby foundation put three of those famous sweaters up for auction on eBay.

Berluti Rapiécés Reprisés – $1,830

These shoes, inspired by Andy Warhol, are notable for the patched appearance traditionally reserved for clothing. Because Warhol requested a visible patch only on his right shoe, each set includes an additional left shoe that remains unpatched.

Eton 80th anniversary dress shirt – over $45,000

Swedish shirt-making company Eton, celebrating their 80th birthday, created this shirt out of the finest Egyptian cotton. Of course, it couldn’t be the most expensive shirt in the world without a few diamonds. Both the studs and the cufflinks are encrusted with diamonds—white diamonds on the cufflinks and colored diamonds on the studs.

Antique Levi’s jeans – $60,000

Levi Strauss Company bid $46,532 to buy a pair of their own brand of jeans back on the popular auction site eBay. However, the most expensive jeans were an average pair of 501 jeans manufactured in the 1880s and purchased by a Japanese collector in 2005 for $60,000.

Satya Paul Design Studio necktie – $220,000

The Satya Paul Design Studio, a company with roots in the early stages of India’s fashion industry, displayed the most expensive necktie in the world at a fashion show aptly titled “Cultural Ties” in Mumbai on October 29th, 2003. Tied around the neck of bollywood film star Salman Khan, this unique tie is made of pure silk with a pattern in 150 grams of gold. It’s also adorned with 271 diamonds weighing 77 carats weighing 77 carats total.

30 Things Every Woman Should Quit Doing By 30

Here we’ve talked a lot about things every woman should do — or, at least know how to do — by the time she turns 30, but until now we haven’t focused too much on the no-nos for women after 30. After the jump, 30 things every women should stop doing once she turns 30.

Buying clothes from the junior section.
Forgetting her parents’ birthdays.
Making out with her BFFs at bars for attention.
Making out with her boyfriend at bars for attention.
Filling her bed with stuffed animals (really, even one is too many).
Carrying a torch for anyone she hasn’t seen in the last five years.
Rebelling against her parents for the sake of rebelling against her parents.
Declaring an entire gender “all jerks.”
Holding a grudge against anyone who wronged her in high school.
Skipping regular gyno exams.
Going to bed without washing and moisturizing her face.
Being “that person” who had a bit too much to drink at the office party.
Crushing on Justin Bieber.
Thinking she’s got it all figured out.
Calling her father “daddy.”
Engaging in sibling rivalry.
Trying to get by on her looks.
Living paycheck to paycheck.
Expecting a man/knight in shining armor to swoop in and save her.
Aimlessly jumping from job to job.
Using MySpace to pick up guys.
Expecting a man to do all the wooing.
Wishing she had someone else’s life.
Expecting everyone to drop everything because it’s her birthday ...
... or because her “boyfriend” of two weeks dumped her.
Measuring her self-worth by a number on the scale.
Being cheap.
Quitting a job without having a new one lined up first (especially in this economy!).
Blaming her mother for all her issues.
Romanticizing her 20s.

Are Women Happier When Men Are the Main Breadwinners?

Folks, like it or not, I'm going to do a little more ranting today about this evolutionary psych stuff.
In the article I commented about yesterday — in which evolutionary psychologist Nick Neave argues that women are biologically programmed to be dependent on men — he goes on to make two more points:
1. Women are happiest in traditional marriages.
In making this argument, Neave points to a recent study from sociologists at the University of Virginia, which found that couples who are happiest in traditional marriages run on old-fashioned gender lines, where the man is the main breadwinner: "The report showed conclusively that women who worked were more dissatisfied with their husbands than those who stayed at home," he says. He also points out that one of the study authors, Radford Wilcox, said: "Regardless of what married women say they believe about gender, they tend to have happier marriages when their husband is a good provider."
2. Women like men who make more than they do.
Neave goes on to say: "Happiest of all were women whose husbands brought in at least two-thirds of the household income, regardless of how much they helped with domestic chores. In short, I suspect women will never feel truly comfortable earning more than their men. The need to rely on a man is driven by such a deep-seated biological urge. I cannot see it ever being eradicated completely."
Oh, please. I think this whole phenomenon could easily be explained thusly: Women whose husbands are bringing in that much of the income are probably less stressed, and therefore happier.
As for why men might not like women who make more than they do, well, I think that's easily explained by centuries of socialization. Men are slowly coming around to the idea that women can be providers, too, but it's a relatively new idea in our culture.