Hi- I wore a shirt that stands out today at work and got a bunch of compliments. I am planning on going shopping tonight and I want to get some ideas of some peacock gear....Any suggestions or success stories around peacocking?

Peacocking is a needy behavior. Think about it for a second. Why are you peacocking ? To get attention. That in itself means that you don't think you yourself are enough to get a girls attention. I don't know what material you have been reading but drop this BS and try out new things. Instead of working on how to get girls to like you, first try to learn on how to like yourself. Think of it as follows "what will make me like myself and think I am the most attractive guy ever" and work on that. If you think you're attractive, girls will also find you attractive. The opposite is also true, which is happening to you right now. Good luck.

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Problem is I am short and overweight. I figure i need to get in shape and then i will find myself attractve which will show confidence when talking to women. In the meantime, i am just trying to work on opening up sets and attracting what i can get.

Physical attributes are only a part of getting a girl. Actually a minor part. So start working out and meanwhile I would advice you to practice your social interactions. Forget about getting laid for now and just go out and socialize talk to girls, troll them, just have fun. Don't concentrate on getting laid. So look at your motives, if your motives of peacocking is to get a girl to like you forget about it, if it is because you just want to for yourself go ahead and do it.

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I'm short and slightly on the fat side, and I get girls.
Maybe not straight 10's, but i get 7's. That's fine enough.
You can practice on the 7's, if you are good and know it doesnt matter you can go for 10s.
Just don;t peacock, its retarded.

This reminds me of a story I had with this $1k Movado I bought with a decent chunk of my internship money when I was in college.

I bought it so that I would have something flashy to show off to women at bars, clubs, etc. I guess pea cocking long before I discovered this PUA stuff. Anyways I started my dry spell I'm March 2008, and got the watch in July 2008. So by the math, this watch never actually produced any ROI. Over the years I blamed it (the watch) on my bad luck and grew to hate it. One day I was at a bar with my friend and his girl. I got his girl to approached random girls to see if they wanted to come over and meet me. After 0/3 I got pissed off, left, went home and destroyed the shit out of the watch. I threw it against the wall at least 4-5x. One of my neighbors actually called the pigs because they thought someone broke in my apartment (noise complaint). I was also taking penis pills at the time and a side effect was increased aggression. Not sure if the 2 are related?

you never got laid ever since?

Nope. Well, I count getting laid as skinny, attractive girls. Since March 2008, I've had sex with 4 girls, 3 fat chicks and a 1 disgusting black prostitutite in Vegas who wasn't hot (80 bucks).

Ah sucks. Just keep getting experience in field and it'll be fine.
When I started out the first 3 I fucked were girls I would rank as 5-drunk 3-6 haha, all good in the end.

[quote="Mantis-"]I'm short and slightly on the fat side, and I get girls.
Maybe not straight 10's, but i get 7's. That's fine enough.
You can practice on the 7's, if you are good and know it doesnt matter you can go for 10s.
Just don;t peacock, its retarded.[/quote]


Yeah, i know. I just used to be skinnier and had a lot more confidence. I consider my self good at opening sets and having convos with woman but i am
No longer confident in taking it further. Maybe i should stop making lame ass excuses.

Don't hate on peacocking if you don't understand it. The idea of peacocking is to draw attention to yourself, correct? NOPE, it's a lot deeper than that.

When a woman see's a guy dressed outrageous, her first thought is interest. Not necessarily I wanna bang this weirdo, but WTF is he wearing? That's interest.

Second, if you approach wearing peacock gear, you have demonstrated huge confidence! THIS IS THE POINT OF PEACOCKING! All you're doing is saying, "I am the fucking man. Look at what I can wear to a bar, and still talk to hot chicks." It's the confidence you demonstrate while peacocking that increases a woman's attraction to you, not the interest in what you're actually wearing.

Another benefit of peacocking is that it's a conversation piece. If you wear something outrageous, you can approach literally any group of women and simply ask if you think you can pull it off. If you have strong body language, they will automatically be impressed by you.

I used to be against peacocking as I thought if I'm not comfortable wearing something, it will show, and thus hurt my game. Then Halloween came, and I wore a 70's Jackie Moon type bball outfit. I had the shortest and tightest shorts any man has ever worn. The entire bar could tell that I was circumcised. And I didn't give a fuck. It was a blast, I opened tons of sets by simply asking girls if they liked my outfit and all the convo's were great. I'm well aware that Halloween is different and thus dressing stupid is acceptable, but I truly believe it applies to any other situation as well.

If you believe you can pull off your peacocking gear, you will naturally demonstrate confidence and thus be more attractive than every other guy in a T-shirt and jeans combo.

I understand peacocking, I know it is what you said.
I'm more thinking of it like: I dont need to dress up as a fucking cowboy in order to show that im the man, I just need to be myself.
If it works for you just keep using it, I never used it and never will.

Also, OP, I used to be really muscular, stopped working out for 1 year and now I'm fat again. Started working out again recently, will try to repair the damage, but don't let it hurt your ego. Just keep sarging, eventually, if you dont feel as confident, lower the bar for girls, go for 6 instead of 8.

Great advice. The key is to find targets when you succeed. Build up your confidence, then move to better targets. VR

Well I think the problem is that his confidence is so shot that he's afraid to approach 3's and 4's (forget 6's and up).

Or he'll get friendzoned by 3's and 4's. I've seen that happen recently, actually, this fat bitch is more like a 0.5.