If you show up for a social gathering and discover you are not dressed right for the occasion, do you prefer to be overdressed or underdressed?
Personally, I'd usually rather be overdressed than underdressed. I feel even more conspicuous if I'm underdressed.
overdressed you just come off as silly or perhaps a bit pretentious. Under dressed you look like a slob or unprofessional, or like you aren't taking the event seriously. So always overdressed.
I would prefer to be overdressed than underdressed.
I would rather be overdressed.
Overdressed impresses much more than underdressed - no matter the venue, I usually find myself in the former category though not alone in that
Always prefer to be overdressed.
I think it's a unanimous consensus on this one. Overdressed FTW.
Just to add my agreement to the thread, overdressed, is the way to go always, even if I know I am going to be overdressed.
It is always better to be overdressed - even for working outdoors. I used to work with a brick layer who wore long-sleeved shirts year 'round. He said, "You can always remove a layer, roll up sleeves, or if at a social function loosen or remove a tie, etc. But if you don't have those things, you can't put them on."
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overdressed, because if you own your look everyone else will feel like they were the ones that under dressed.
What I usually do is feel out the kind of get together. I don't like feeling under dressed or over dressed so I prepare myself for it if even if it means asking..
I love dressing up formally so I'd rather show up overdressed and like unbutton my shirt to make it more casual if need be.
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If I am at a gathering and am under-dressed the way I feel is as if I was un-dressed. Besides, I love dressing nicely and well, so overdressed any day
I'm usually overdressed. So I suppose I prefer that to being underdressed.
I'm always overdressed or UNdressed. I only own nice clothes, so that's how it works.
I am going with the "overdressed", although I can't imagine ever actually being overdressed, since I wear the same simple 14k earrings with a matching pendant on a box chain necklace, and pretty much stick to a plain but flattering black shift dress and medium high heels when going anywhere, not terribly interesting but it works in 99.5% of occasions.
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. In that case overdressed is better 
) but I agree that from a social standpoint, overdressed is probably preferable.