From GQ.com
Carol Davidson, a New York–based image consultant and life coach who teaches classes on image consultation at the Fashion Institute of Technology, explains that interviewers make these connections subconsciously. Davidson calls it the dotted-line effect, explaining that those in positions of power draw implicit inferences:
[mk_blockquote style=”quote-style” font_family=”none” text_size=”12″ align=”left”]“If you pay attention to the details in your appearance and your wardrobe—dot, dot, dot—you pay attention to the details in your work.”[/mk_blockquote]