http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/06/in_praise_of_dowdiness_it_s_an_insult_but_it_s_also_a_superpower.html

Like every neurotic patient, I’ve wondered what my shrink really thinks about me. Does he find me shallow? Boring? Self-absorbed? Cruel? What never occurred to me is that he might be thinking about my shoes, and whether they are “too-sensible.” New York psychiatrist David Hellerstein recently confessed in the New York Times about his lovelorn patient, “Greta.” She had Ivy League degrees, a Wall Street job, and a downtown loft, but she couldn’t find romance. Lexapro and Klonopin weren’t doing the trick, so after a year, he suggested an alternate therapeutic path: Drawing from years of psychiatric training at the school of Tyra Banks, Dr. Hellerstein asked if she had “considered getting a makeover.”