Attractiveness is genetics. They weren’t very clean. They would wash off with water here and there, maybe bathe in a river if they got lucky, but clothes rarely changed. At the very minimum, if you just take care of yourself, even if you don’t get to bathe all the time, you won’t look like the homeless guy on the corner I think it’s also worth mentioning that if you use shampoo and soap daily, it strips you of natural oils so your body overcompensates with new oils. What that means is that people who shampoo regularly get greasy hair faster than people who space it out more. Back then no one used shampoo and the oil in hair and body balanced out more.