Are you (and your sisters) more or less groomed that your mother/grandmother?

[Anna8888]

Are we getting more or less fussy about our appearance through the generations? Why?

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We simply have more time and money and don't have to worry about how to feed 8 children on a turnip and a slice of ham

My grandmother spent more time and money on her appearance than my mother... and I probably spend about the same amount as my mother, but differently and with very different results.

But no-one is or was worrying about how to feed the family (except during the war).

Both my nan's looked stunningly glam in their day, my mum was a hippy so in all her photos she's got v long hair and no make up (she didn't need it), I love my beauty products so guess i'm more groomed than mum at least. As for my sister she's just lopped off her dreadlocks and has discovered hair products so she may become more groomed than me soon

or should that be nans' or nans even?

i think i spend more money but less time on myself than my mother...but she is Mrs Coordinated to a Tee and has makeup and jewellery to match every outfit she owns and has over 100 pairs of shoes...!!!

I probably buy more expensive cosmetics/skincare and pay more to have hair done...i still remember pinching her oil of Ulay (before it was olay)

Less. I'd love to set my hair like my Nanny did, and my Mum always looks well put together even though she's an old hippy.
I however learned my 'style' from an article in Just Seventeen about Grunge circa 1992, and have to fight the urge to wear plaid flannel shirts and cardigans buttoned up wrong.

Less than my Mother, more than my Grandmother.
My Mother was always a very beautiful woman, married young and I vividly remember her touching up her make up before my Father came home from work. They married young, Mom has never had a career and she always felt threatened to "look the part", which I find sad.
My Grandmother was no natural beauty but had an extremely sharp mind and ascerbic wit, she relied on her brain and personality rather than looks.
I am somewhere between the two!

i spend more money, but look much more scruffy

Less.

More money and more time than both, but no better.

less. I don't know how to do clever things with my hair and I don't dress as "formally" (not sure of the correct word really) or perhaps it should be "ladylike" or "grown-up" as my mother and grandmother would have done every day.

I think my sister and I have a more individual style perhaps come to think of it but that our mother, grandmothers were consistently more groomed in a more grown-up looking style. Maybe that's it. Especially the hair.

Really wish I knew how to do things with my hair but I'm useless at it

About the same. We are not a 'groomed' family.

my sister is more (no kids, six-figure City salary)
I am less

but I am more groomed atm than she was at this time in her life
iyswim

Probably about the same but just in different ways. My mother doesn't wear make up - I wouldn't leave the house without it, but she couldn't contemplate a social scenario where your shoes and bag don't match and I think that's a bit old fashioned.

My sister is a lot more put together than either of us though.

My Gran was fairly groomed, in the way most women of her generation were I think. She had her hair "done" in the hairdressers, wore make-up everyday, and wore skirts (never, ever trousers) and blouses with nice jewellry etc. She liked to use nice products, like Clarins, when she could afford them.
My mum was a tom-boy as a child, bit of a hippy during the 60s and 70s. She rarely wears make up, never styles her hair and usually wears trousers. She uses Boots or supermarket own brands of toiletries, though she does like nice perfume.
Me and my sister are both fairly groomed, like our nice products, wear make up most days and get our hair cut in salons - my mum would have an absolute fit if she knew how much I spent on a haircut!

less for me. Jeans, not hats and brooches! (or trouser suits in hot colours)

The descent of woman here I'm afraid. Grandmother was one of those 1950's women who would have been ready for a close up photo shoot from 6am till 12 pm, and probaby even in her silky nightie after that. High heels all day every day, even when cooking. Mum more of a 70s kaftan babe, no make up and sandals. I am a complete fright, and I have fewer children than either of them.

My grandmother was a farmer's wife, would have worn a bit of powder and lipstick when going into town/to church but not every day. Always wore a skirt or dress but don't think many of her peers would have worn trousers. Probably had her hair "done" from time to time don't think there would have been any other "treatments" available in her area then...

My mums was probably less groomed than I am at my age but now has more time & money for treatments, etc. She wouldn't wear make-up every day though and I do most days...

I think my gran was pretty glam, but my mum isnt, no make up etc.
I can't leave the house without hair and make up done!

I'm probably more groomed than my mother was at my age. I remove some excess body hair, wear make up and high heels, use different jewellery daily.

But my dm has changed as she's got older, and now uses more expensive products and looks after herself a bit more.

less than both

Less, my mother is obsessed with what she and I look like, my sister is just like her, if she was chocolate she'd eat herself.

More.

I do enjoy these sorts of questions, thanks Anna.

Am going to answer, then read thread (so that I'm not influenced ...)

Sister and I are by and large non-make-up & non-heel wearers (though we both rather like shoes generally in the aesthetic way most women do - just what we like is not going to be the fragile strappy kind of twaddly thing).

Mother is of the "a little bit of definition never did anyone any harm" school of make-up but I'd say is less engaged in the charms of accessories than me & sis.

Maternal grandmother was rather a beauty in her day - very slight with cloud of copper hair - and I think she didn't feel much need to do any more decoration, as her looks spoke for themselves.

Maternal great-grandmother (mother of the beauty), on the other hand, was your original Grande Dame of furs and hats and shiny tiny shoes and altogether parure. Apparently there were pursed lips when it was clear she had a go at upstaging her own daughter at daughter's wedding.

I think the looming presence of Great-Granny (she lived on, in turquoise velvet tea-growns and imperiousness, until I was 14) has quietly turned the rest of us away from, you know, show.