Hormones estrogen and testosterone also plays a role when you choose the clothing.

- Today would like to wear clothing made from cotton and then the next day you want to wear a linen dress. Not just simply want to look stylish consideration, someone wants to wear clothing with certain materials.

Apparently, the hormone also affects the taste of women when choosing clothing materials. This is according to research conducted DervalResearch, marketing research agency in 3500 men and women in 25 countries.


The study found that women are influenced by the hormone estrogen when choosing fabrics made ​​from wool, fur and silk. Meanwhile, if you tend to prefer vegetable fiber-based materials such as cotton and linen, women are influenced by the hormone testosterone.

The study also found that men tend to be more sensitive than women when using synthetic materials. From research carried out starting from April 2007 until February 2011, it is known that gender, ethnicity and the immune system, it affects the perception of touch, pressure, pain, and vibration related clothing materials selection.

"The touch is a vibration. We identified distinct profiles based touch people's perception of touch, ie non-vibration, vibration vibration medium and super," said Diana Derval, researchers from DervalResearch, quoted by the Times of India.

Vibration super, six times more sensitive to touch than others. This makes a person obviously would prefer to wear cotton, silk or wool.

Effect of testosterone make women experience the thrill of super-or medium vibration. Meanwhile, the hormone estrogen makes women into non-vibration and vibration medium. Thus, the vibration of what you experience today?

(VIVAnews-Mutia Nugraheni)