If I have a bad night I blame it on the dress I was wearing. I feel that certain dresses make me money and others bring me bad luck. Does anyone else feel this way???I know its silly but does anyone else believe this??
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If I have a bad night I blame it on the dress I was wearing. I feel that certain dresses make me money and others bring me bad luck. Does anyone else feel this way???I know its silly but does anyone else believe this??
While unique outfits can grab attention, I think it's more that you exude more confidence in a dress that you feel good in = $$$. One time when I was working in a ''no minidresses before midnight'' club, I didn't have a long dress that night! I HAD to wear this other girl's dress and she was a UK12 (I'm a UK8). Now, I like my dresses *tight* so I felt like I was in a bin liner that evening. It showed and definitely reflected in my earnings!! :(
If it's not the dress that causes a bad night, I blame it on laziness. That's really when I've noticed a marked decrease in my sales.
I think it has more to do with your attitude than anything else. I agree with Malibu that confidence is so important, but you can be confident that you look good and still have a bad attitude, which can cut into your money more than not being confident IMHO.
It is partly the dress and partly how you feel in the dress I think. Obvously you want something to show off your figure you don't want ot be walking around in a trench coat or anything that hides your best assets. But it is so much more important in how your dress makes you feel. If I am wearing a new dress and I feel like a porn star in it I DEFINATLY notice I have no problems getting dances!!!
In my own case it's ABSOLUTELY true that certain outfits stimulate a lot more customer attention than other ones. I make it a policy that if wearing a certain outfit results in poor earnings three times, I dump it in favor of something new. In my case this has nothing whatsoever to do with a change in self-confidence or self-image, it's merely the visual first impression that certain outfits are able to make which other outfits do not !
I do well in a wide variety of outfits, because I can play a variety of stripper parts. Cutesie, fetish, elegant, whatever. However there are some themes that work better in certain clubs. In my current club, the themes that consistently work best for me are cutesie or fetish, so I go with that. Sometimes I'd like to do something different, but it doesn't get as much initial attention, so I let those outfits gather dust for now.
I started a register when I began dancing at my club on my computer. It had columns labelled for date, shift (day/night), take-home earnings, amount owed in taxes for that night, and the outfit/outfits I wore. After a couple of months I noticed that the clothes I wore really had no impact on how much I made. The same dress could have brought in $ for both my top and bottom earning days. Ironically, the two weeks that I was allowed to wear dancesneakers because 1) my stillettos broke, and 2) I had a knee injury, where my two best weeks *ever*. Too bad my lucky tennishoes are against club policy!
PS-I also noticed no change in how much I made compared to whether I wore one outfit the entire shift or changed outfits during the shift.
So now I just wear what I feel like and change when I want to... The guys pay more attention when our clothes are off, anyway!
During race weeks, I used to wear different team logo costumes. One year for the USGP, I wore this Ferrari thong, and an Italian guy went nuts. He was tipping me fives at the stage and bought a couple of hours of VIPs.
Sometimes Ill buy a dress and like melonie said after 3 times of not making money in it I get rid of it.