Have you ever gotten up one morning feeling groggy and just wanting to go back to sleep? (That's me basically every morning.) What about feeling like that and then dressing like a slob? Go ahead and admit it. Every single person is guilty of it. Even the people who dress nice 99.9 percent of the time have their off days. But maybe on the days you do feel like crawling back under your covers and hibernating for the rest of your life, consider pushing that feeling aside and dressing nicely for a change. You’ll feel more than a hundred times better. “When you look good, you feel good and you perform at a much higher level in your personal and professional life,” said image consultant Julie Zanes, founder of Instyle Image. Dressing nicely does not always mean dresses and heels for girls and suits and ties for guys; it’s different for everyone. Dressing nice is what you’re comfortable and confident in. Let's be honest here, if anyone says they're comfortable in heels and a suit, do not trust them. They have to be lying.

It has actually been proven that the better you dress (according to your style, of course), the better you feel. Dr. Alistair Tombs from the University of Queensland, who is the lead researcher of this topic, said, “We demand many things from clothing. Quite a few people [in his study] talked about using clothes to change their mood.” If the people that were included in his study felt bad, they would choose nice clothes to make themselves brighten up. Researchers have also found that women have a tendency to attach emotions to clothing items. Women then use the clothes that have positive emotions attached with them to boost their mood. “Clothes are almost like photographs: they bring back memories of a moment in your life,” said Dr. Tombs. So, a shirt you wore on a first date that went really well or a dress you wore when you received an award, would make you feel confident, whereas the clothes you wore during an embarrassing moment would make you feel bad. The same could happen for guys. They don’t want to wear a shirt that reminds them of their ex-girlfriend, when they got in serious trouble or when they were embarrassed.

So the next time you feel like throwing on a pair of sweats and not fixing your hair, stop and think how much you could benefit from just a few extra minutes spent on yourself in the morning. Put on the clothes that make you feel attractive and confident and flaunt them like you’re a runway model (Guys, you can be a runway model, too!).