To wonder what you need to wear to feel dressed and ready to face the world?

[Dolcelatte]

In my case, it is earrings and scent, but a friend says it has to be quality underwear in case she is run over by a bus!?? (so no Bridget Jones pants!); another needs her high heels.

So I was just wondering, what is your 'can't live without' item?

Great knickers and a good bra

Mascara. Knickers optional.

clothes and brushed hair

Clothes, and brush my hair.

Good hair, make-up (don't wear much), squirt of perfume, good coat. Doesn't then matter much what's underneath unless I have to take it off. I have tucked my pyjama bottoms into boots, thrown on a coat and rushed to the doctors to make an appointment as they opened the door when the dc were small and sickly.

Ironed clothes, polished shoes, a bit of make up, blow dried hair, earrings, carkeys and handbag.

Face cream with SPF and a bra. Any clothes on top and I'm out. When I'm at work I need a full face of 'natural' makeup to feel presentable, but otherwise I couldn't give a toss what I look like!

Clothes appropriate for wherever I'm going, including a bra and shoes.

Glasses
Lipbalm
Brushed hair

I have never felt the need to wear make-up routinely, it's special occasions only for me.

Eyeliner, blusher, heels and mascara.

The rest is an added bonus, but the above I couldn't go without.

Perfume and foundation or primer (or both).
CHJR

Bare minimum; Hair brushed or in a bun, scrubbed face, SPF, mascara and blush, tinted Vaseline which does lips and any stray eyebrows, big sunglasses and a scarf, changing bag which was stupidly expensive but doubles as a handbag. Throw requires crapola in bag, pull on combination of whichever skinny jeans, vest top and ballet flats are nearest and done!

On a good day I might get a full face of makeup and
and some heels on. Maybe.

Clothes and a hairbrush.

work day - make up (mostly concealer, rest is to ensure I have distinct features amid the concealer ) earrings

day off - earrings, walking boots

going out - earrings

Thanks for all of your replies - a most interesting range - I'm obviously not alone with the earrings!

I've also done the coat over PJs, but was a bit embarrassed when one of the PJ legs fell down as I was in the butchers - in front of my new neighbour who, as luck would have it, was also buying her provisions for the week. 'Dolcelatte' she said, in front of a shop full of people, in a loud, Home Counties, and faintly shocked tone 'Are you wearing your pyjamas?'

(embarrassed face!)

You can see me however you see me. I have walked to shop in onesie when needed so Im probably the low standards type that mumsnet hates

A good bra, but apart from that any clothes that aren't pyjamas. New Zealand is very forgiving.

I'm pretty sensitive about how I look when I go out. I'm usually pretty well dressed, but the one day I dared to stop at the shops looking a bit sloppy (tracksuit pants, hair in a ponytail and no makeup after a day of dog trialling in the teeming rain!), I came back to school to find parents bitching about how I looked that day. So now I am overly sensitive and won't even go in the front yard without looking neat and tidy.

Bra, hair fixed, and not in yoga pants. Also must have already had two cups of coffee.

Full make up , hair done , nice clothes on
Wouldn't leave the house if not 'done up' even just to shops / garage etc but I have always been like this

Mascara and eyeliner
Perfume
And if my hair is crap, I feel crap

Good, well fitted bra is an essential, before going anywhere.

Clothes.

Contacts or specs, hearing aid, two cups of tea and I'd happily answer the door in my dressing gown.

Feel weird if I don't have my engagement and wedding ring on. Sometimes I take them off if I need to run products through my hair in the morning and then forget to put them back on.

I feel really sad all day, like I'm betraying my marriage.

Don't really care about makeup (day to day), have shortish hair so don't care about that either as long it's not sticking up madly at the back.

Just need my glasses to see

Mascara and brushed teeth.