General Impression

From the moment you walk unto the stage or to the front of the room, your listeners from impressions of you. These impressions reflect on what you have to say. If, dressed in blue jeans and a sweat shirt, you begin to deliver a formal address, on your judgment is immediately questioned. The same would be true if you stood before your class in black coat and tie to give a book report. When speaking in public, you should look relaxed, clean, and neat. Shined shoes, brushed hair, well-pressed clothes-all ass to the good impression you want to make. Your general appearance, like your manner, should not call attention to itself; it should be neither contrived and theatrical nor careless and sloppy.