Forget expensive jewellery, chocolates and flowers, guys. If you want to attract the opposite sex, try adding red to your daily wardrobe, suggests a new study.

In the US, England, Germany and China, women found men more appealing when they were either pictured wearing red or framed in red, compared with other colors.
"Red is typically thought of as a sexy colour for women only. Our findings suggest that the link between red and sex also applies to men," said Andrew Elliot, PhD, of the University of Rochester and University of Munich.
Twenty-five men and 32 women briefly viewed a black-and-white photo of a Caucasian man in a polo shirt, surrounded by a red or white matte. Using a nine-point scale, they answered three questions: "How attractive do you think this person is?" "How pleasant is this person to look at?" and "If I were to meet the person in this picture face to face, I would think he is attractive."
Red warmed up women only. Women who looked at a man surrounded by red or white rated the man surrounded by red a little over one point higher on a nine-point scale of attractiveness, a statistically significant bump.
Another experiment featured a man in a color photo, dressed in either a red or a green shirt. A pool of 55 women rated the man in red as significantly more attractive-on average, nearly one point higher on the same nine-point scale.
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Although red means different things in different cultures, the finding of women (but not men) drawn to men in red was consistent across countries.
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Five smaller studies (20-38 participants) comparing women's responses to men in red or gray, including their sense of the men's status, established a chain of evidence that red may enhance sexual attractiveness because red is a status symbol, according to the authors.
The power of red holds throughout the primate world. Female primates (including women) are "extremely adept at detecting and decoding blood flow changes in the face," the authors wrote, "and women have been shown to be more sensitive to the perception of red stimuli than are men."
Are men aware that red may work in the bedroom as well as the boardroom? The authors suggest red might make men more likely to strut their stuff. "A man who wears red may feel dominant," they added, "which influences his self-confidence and behavior and in turn may impress women."
The finding is reported in the August issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, published by the American Psychological Association.
Source-ANI