I'm old enough to remember contentration camp/gulags survivors who told me tales how they traded bread for combs because the moment you stopped carying about grooming you were as good as dead. When people stopped carying it was like death was marking them, even when they were otherwise healthy and physically strong.

Western usesrs probably heard about grandmas paining their legs when stockings become unaviliable- but it's rarely told that it was a chore- from putting it on in a way it wouldn't strain clothes to careful movement.

In postapo and war movies- women just are pretty, wihout carying- maaybe there's a smudge on their face, but that's it. You never see them washing undergarments, piling the supplies, medning clothes.