The night was a hit, Prays said, adding that half a dozen couples hooked up and one pair formed a relationship. Since then, she has held similar parties in New York and Los Angeles and is planning others for Atlanta, San Francisco and perhaps elsewhere.
Many partygoers chuckled at the idea of finding a match in a smelly T-shirt. But that's not to say there isn't some science supporting the idea.
Research studies using similar T-shirt experiments have shown that people prefer different human scents. But whose smell they prefer is dictated by a set of genes that influence our immune response - which researchers say is nature's way of preventing inbreeding and preserving genetic adaptations developed over time.
'Humans can pick up this incredibly small chemical difference with their noses,' said Martha McClintock, founder of the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago. 'It is like an initial screen.'
In one such study, McClintock and her colleagues had participants sniff inside a covered box without knowing that in some cases they were smelling worn T-shirts. What they found was people preferred the odors of those who had different genetic makeups from their own, but not radically different.
In Los Angeles, several dozen 20-somethings headed to the gallery at night in search of romance - or at least out of curiosity. They posed playfully for the photographer with shirts they liked, hoping the owner might step forward and say hello.
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