1-2 hours.
shower, wash hair (naturally curly so leave to dry with generous amounts of anti-frizz products). Choose outfit, reject every outfit because, too tight, too short, wrong colour, wore it last time, drink wine because now sad that there is nothing to wear. Wrestle with holdie in foundation garments. Realise I can't breathe, drink more wine. Apply make up and realise that when sitting down, the aforementioned lingerie is acting like a medieval torture device and internal organs are being crushed. Go back to wardrobe hoping that the clothes fairies have been and put something different in there. Try everything on again, drink more wine, decide on something that looks OK because by now the wine is working and I'm starting to rate myself. Bend down to fasten shoes up, almost pass out from oxygen deprivation. Go out.