If you are a woman, in particular a stay at home wife or girlfriend, you should be as beautiful as you can. Every girl has different assets to work with. Put your best foot forward. Even on a day you are staying home and cleaning all day, you should look feminine and well put together. We can’t all look like models (I certainly don’t) but putting on a pretty dress or a hair bow is doable for almost any girl.

Homemakers should dress nicely and wear makeup/jewelry/perfume (if their husband likes those things) for a few reasons.

1. It helps stave off depression. I can’t explain it, but getting myself together in the morning is helpful. If you are alone all day, depression is a risk. By putting your hair up and putting on some lipstick, you can improve your mood. It brings women down when they look slovenly.

2. It helps you work harder. When you get up and get ready for the day just like a person going to an office job, it gets your blood pumping and gives you a little dose of work ethic to work that much harder on the house. After all, homemaking is an important job. When you take a job seriously, you tend to work harder at it.

3. Your man who provides for you deserves to have something good to look at when he comes home. Ask yourself this. If you went around when you were single looking the way you do now, would your husband have still asked you out? Hopefully the answer is yes, but if it isn’t, then it’s time to take a look in the mirror and see what can be improved.

4. Being frumpy makes it look like you don’t respect your man or yourself. How you dress and carry yourself tells the world a lot about you. If you dress like you have no pride, the world will respect you less. It isn’t fair that looks are often used to judge people, but it’s common, and we should realize that it reflects poorly upon us AND our husbands when we don’t look our best. Sick days are different, but on a healthy day, you should look good enough that you are willing to be in pictures.

5. Homemakers are often looked down upon in Western society. Why feed into that image by looking crappy? We have the best job in the world. We should dress like it.