Peacocking: who does it and what do you do?

[amat]

Yikes Bilbo. No gay jewelry and the girl I'm 'dating' currently is like a size 2 Actually I'm not so sure about that I am just comparing her to a size 2 I once knew and they're about the same. I haven't had sex with her yet though as I actually really like her despite her being a severe alcoholic I don't know I'm all confused right now.

I just dress like myself although today I am dressed gayer then I normally do. I have one of those Polo shirts that cuffs like right above my elbow but I get a lot of compliments whenever I wear it it makes me look like a healthy slim rather then just straight up skinny which is usually what I get when I wear my usual T shirts. The only accessories I ever wear are oversized glasses that kinda make me look like a bug. Not girly ones or even expensive ones just black Bam Margera types.

WTF is peacocking?

[Kev]

Yikes Bilbo. No gay jewelry and the girl I'm 'dating' currently is like a size 2 Actually I'm not so sure about that I am just comparing her to a size 2 I once knew and they're about the same. I haven't had sex with her yet though as I actually really like her despite her being a severe alcoholic I don't know I'm all confused right now.

I just dress like myself although today I am dressed gayer then I normally do. I have one of those Polo shirts that cuffs like right above my elbow but I get a lot of compliments whenever I wear it it makes me look like a healthy slim rather then just straight up skinny which is usually what I get when I wear my usual T shirts. The only accessories I ever wear are oversized glasses that kinda make me look like a bug. Not girly ones or even expensive ones just black Bam Margera types.

WTF is peacocking?

The thing is Amat you're like 18 mate when most girls are still are young and slim, hence why older pervs like me like them. Get into your mid thirties and girls take a nose dive in attractiveness. Kids, domesticity and decades of chips and pie abuse mean the majority of women over 30 look more like cattle than page 3 glamour fare.

This is the urban dictionary definition of peacking Urban Dictionary: peacocking

Here is the master himself talking about it

[amat]

Well like ICB I plan on finding a girl to marry and call her 'my girl' and settle down and talk about it on here before the time I turn 30. However, the majority of my friends are from work and are much older then me and they do fine for themselves with the over 30 crowd, IDK though. I still wouldn't consider scarves and hankerchiefs Bilbo.

[Youngblood]

I went hardcore peacock with a tattoo from neck to elbow. I'll sometimes even wear baby blue (zomg so ghey!) body shirts my gramma bought me cuz i know it adds to the whole peacock thingmabopper. But the tattoo sealed the deal really. Them chics who used to only like the bad boys and hate the jocks? Well I get them now too because of it if need be. Sure it'll prob. look stupid when I'm 40, but by them who cares, they'll all have saggy tits and horrible histories by then anyway.

[Gandalf]

I don't peacock (is that even how you express it?), but say go for it, Bilbo! Get your bracelets on, but hold back on the cherry lipstick unless you are going for some self cutting emo types. I have been asked if I am gay when I sport nothing but a short back and sides and regular casual clothing. No chance I am going to start wearing bracelets and looking like a proper old dandy.

[Kev]

I don't peacock (is that even how you express it?), but say go for it, Bilbo! Get your bracelets on, but hold back on the cherry lipstick unless you are going for some self cutting emo types. I have been asked if I am gay when I sport nothing but a short back and sides and regular casual clothing. No chance I am going to start wearing bracelets and looking like a proper old dandy.

A couple years ago I grew my hair quite long and had had it highlighted. Most mates when they saw me all said the same thing 'Haha fucking hell what have you done to you barnet!!!

But I got approached by a lot more girls when I was out.

The two times in my life when I've been consistenly approached by girls is when I had a shaven head and when I looked like Sacha Cohen's 'Bruno' creation.

[Dizaster]

I was thinking about this the other day and paying attention to people while around town...

I know the theory of how wearing these type of jewelery type things makes you look like a sexually active person.. But I think it's more to do with that "tribe" thing, like, goth, emo, punk, preppy, etc etc.... Like, we I live in a small town where the main kind of tribe is punky rock sort of thing... Outside my town where their are a lot of ethnic people, rap and bling is really cool.... But in my town, chains, dark leather jewellery, lots of surf type jewellery, dark jeans, studded belts, tightish black shirts...
Anyway I forgot my point now....
Ummm, f'ck... I think what I was saying is I think that wearing that type of stuff is more to show that you are part of the "in" crowd... Like, you wouldn't dress like that unless you had FRIENDS who dress like that... It shows you are a part of a crew, and perhaps partly a leader of it... If you dress real plain, then your a part of the plain crowd..... If you go to the effort of putting cool shit on, then girls automatically asumed you are regularly hanging out with cool people....

I guess it all says the same thing, that you have value.... More value than the guy next to you who isn't wearing anything cool... And if you think about younger people, or rock bands or anything, the people who most exaggerate the look, tend to be the leaders or the people with most value...