Are you well groomed?

I do well groomed and comfortable all the time as well as no make-up. I never wear anything uncomfortable.

Much as I love my best friend, she is so stylish, I always look like a bag lady when I'm with her. We go to Yoga. I arrive in baggy jogging pants and old tee shirt. She arrives in slim cut trousers, tucked into long boots, a designer blue top, with a silk scarf around her neck. She has a pretty coloured bag to carry her bits in. I have a Tesco carrier bag for mine! As I say, she has it, I have not!

Im with thatbags ...you dont need makeup and hair in place to be well groomed...id call it clean and tidy ...theres too much focus in the media of what women should look like in today's society...i think vanity plays a bigger part in being 'well groomed'...

Bags, you most definitely are well-groomed - especially your hair! I'm still struggling to do mine the way you showed me...! I always end up with bits sticking out and not at all smooth like yours.

Mine isn't smooth in a wind, marelli. Check out my dandelion head pic on my Twitter profile .

However, a dandelion hairstyle doesn't make me ungroomed.

Just looked at your photos on here and you ALL look very well-groomed.

Just off to have my daily fight with my hair.

I don't think that it is only in modern times that there has been an expectation of what women should look like, dollie.
In my grandmother's time, it was considered shocking to show your ankle. And I don't suppose anyone on Granset has ever strapped themselves into a whalebone corset, either.
I please myself.
That means being clean, tidy and dressed appropriately and comfortably for the occasion.

My hair has a mind of its own and needs a lot of mousse and spray to keep it under control. Today it's in its natural state and looks scruffy!

I wore a rubber Playtex girdle in my youth. Pink, with little holes and reaching from waist to top of thigh. Probably nearly as restrictive as whalebone corsets!

It wasn't done to have buttock wobble under the tight skirt on those days.

Well groomed like well dressed is not a question of what you do but how you do it.

You can go to the gym in t shirt and jogging bottoms and whether you look well-dressed will depend not on the cost of what you buy but how you choose and wear it, scruffy t shirt and scruffy jogging bottoms look awful. Clean navy jogging bottoms and a bright white t shirt always looks good.

The same with well groomed, face, nails etc clean and hair combed and you are well groomed

...and most of all an air of serene self-confidence (not the same as being serenely self-confident)

I started out well groomed (well, showered, hair blowdried nicely and clean clothes) this morning, but by noon I looked hot and bothered with fuzzy hair. Some people have it but I haven't.

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I'm not remotely well groomed these days now that I'm retired. After years of dressing in business suits it is great to just relax in jeans and sweat shirts.
But, - I can't start the day without a bit of moisturising cream on my face and a lick of mascara. And I always put earrings on first thing.