What Not to Wear - Online Dating Edition

First dates are hard enough, right? You want to look good (but not too slutty, if you're a girl), smell good, and be interesting to the other person, and you hope your date does the same.  Online dating has double the pressure--you're meeting this person for the first time in person, and you want to make the best impression possible, and you're probably hoping that the other person resembles their profile photo... 

And so...  while having drinks with a friend of mine on Friday, a woman walked in and caught my eye... for all the wrong reasons. I looked up and stopped, mid-sentence, and looked at this woman--probably mid-40s, a little on the heavy side, brown hair... sadly, most of which was fake, as we could see where it attached to her head.  And then there was the matter of her outfit.  She was wearing a much-loved stonewashed cutoff denim skirt, which was too short, and too small... this resulted in the waistband of the skirt clinging tightly to her, just under her breasts.  With this denim skirt, she chose to wear a one-piece bathing suit with a low, scooped back.  She was fairly well-endowed, and unfortunately, this element of her outfit provided little, if any, support for her 'girls'.  She sat down on the red vinyl stool, and her skirt rode up, graciously displaying the bottom of her one-piece bathing suit. I still find myself wondering why she chose to wear a bathing suit as part of her ensemble, as opposed to a tank top, or something of that genre.

About ten minutes later, a gentleman walked in and looked around.  He came to our side of the bar and looked at the woman, then took a deep breath, and made a face.  He then tapped her on the shoulder and asked, 'Excuse me, would you happen to be _____ from (onlinedatingsite).com?'  

They spoke for some time, but he was turned away from her most of the time, and they left separately. Again, I felt sad for the woman--I'm sure she had high hopes for the night, and I don't know how she may have represented herself online, but... 

Have you gone online to find a date? How do you feel about online dating in general?