Saying someone "looked cool"?


I want to tell someone that they "looked cool" today.  
Normally I would write: **"今日OOさんはかっこよかった！"**  
But I don't want to mean just that they are cool more specifically I mean
their outfit and styling.  
Would **"今日OOさんはかっこいい見えました！"** work better for this feeling?

Thanks!




I think the issue here is that you are explicitly trying to map the English
word "look(ed)" into a Japanese verb, when you don't really need to. Learn to
think in Japanese, don't (always) try to translate your thoughts from English.

So instead of trying to find a verb, you can just say that their
clothes/style/whatever **were** cool.

>   * 今日〇〇さんの(服・髪型)はかっこよかった！
>   * 今日の(ファッション・スタイル)すごいよかったね！
>   * 今日はめっちゃ(スマートな・おしゃれな)服だったね！
>

If you really want to use 見える, the correct grammar would be かっこよく見えた. But to
me 1) that feels like something you just wouldn't say to someone, and 2) かっこいい
and 見える are like different levels of familiarity, so I don't know that they'd
be used together, even if talking _about_ the person to someone else.




I think the issue here is that you are explicitly trying to map the English
word "look(ed)" into a Japanese verb, when you don't really need to. Learn to
think in Japanese, don't (always) try to translate your thoughts from English.

So instead of trying to find a verb, you can just say that their
clothes/style/whatever **were** cool.

>   * 今日〇〇さんの(服・髪型)はかっこよかった！
>   * 今日の(ファッション・スタイル)すごいよかったね！
>   * 今日はめっちゃ(スマートな・おしゃれな)服だったね！
>

If you really want to use 見える, the correct grammar would be かっこよく見えた. But to
me 1) that feels like something you just wouldn't say to someone, and 2) かっこいい
and 見える are like different levels of familiarity, so I don't know that they'd
be used together, even if talking _about_ the person to someone else.

