Trend for weather/tv presenters to wear very tight clothes. Am I just old?

[ParsleyTheLioness]

Is it just me? Even on these slim women, doesn't seem to be a good luck. Tell me I am not alone in these thoughts! Please.

[flipchart]

I like Eno Eruotor's style.

[echt]

I've so got to piggy back on this.

In Australia, all news presenters hold their arms passively clasped across the abdomen, then pan out horizontally to make a point. at first only women did this, Now it's the men.

No-one has their arms at the side, then gesture.

It's as if it's a rule, and only in the last year. Triffiids? Bodysnatchers?

Oh, it looks fucking stupid.

[AnyFucker]

I have just watched Granada Weather

The female present was wearing a very pretty and sensible shirt/jumper/skirt combo

[AnyFucker]

*presenter

[squoosh]

Bloody hell seasalt she's a bit different to good old Gerald Fleming!

I hate tight body con dresses on anyone, no matter how amazing their figure is. I think they're tacky, tacky, tacky.

[flipchart]

I can't get worked up over this. The fashion generally is for bod con dresses. They look up to date, their figures suit it in the whole. The main thing for me is about the forecast and outlook.

Why the fuck do you all care what people are wearing?

One person' s classy is another persons tacky.

I think it's awful that you come on here bitching about someone's style.
Each to their own and all that.

[squoosh]

Why do people give a fuck what they're wearing? Ummm, let's see, because this is the Style & Beauty board perhaps.

[AnyFucker]

It's kinda the raison d'etre of the S+B board.

And for someone who doesn't care too much, flip you seem a trifle overwrought

[seasalt]

squoosh poor old Gerald is not looking too great these days

[flipchart]

Nah, I'm not overwrought, I'm just flicking through MN before work and looking at all the bitchy comments thinking there's no need and does it really matter what they are wearing in general.

And I don't get the comment very early on that some laughed that the Countryfile presenter did the weather in an open neck shirt!

[ComeInKettlesOn]

It's more a comment on the changes over the years I think. It used to be suits, then jumpers on breakfast TV.

[CointreauVersial]

I honestly never notice.

I'm too busy glaring at DH, who has a Becky Mantin fetish and goes all gooey when she comes on.

[sanschocolat]

I know it's a fairly trivial subject as things go, but I think it does matter in a way what they wear. Aren't we commenting about the creeping sexualisation of everything?

[Apart from the Countryfile chap of course.]

[ParsleyTheLioness]

Oh my word...

[sanschocolat]

Maybe not then ...

[ParsleyTheLioness]

Sans somehow I missed your post (doh). I think you are right, yes, and it bothers me, that we are in the 21st century, and this is how it is!

[Eastpoint]

I am always surprised by how 'evening' hair styles are on guests and even some of the local news presenters.

[bunnymother]

I'm with you, Sans. I've been looking at American workwear street-style photos - short and tight is commonly seen. Umm, no. Ditto to those super high or open toed shoes. Send sexy back home, it's not for work. Well, not the kind of work I've ever done [sniffs like a nanna]

[figgypuddings]

The BBC Scotland weather woman who was wearing such a tight dress on Friday that you could see how ill fitting her bra was. It looked so uncomfortable!
Look at my bra and not the huge storm rolling in from the Atlantic. Perhaps the clothes are a diversion tactic.

[BlueStones]

Agree about the sexualisation of everything: you see this at every conference I go to now as well. Men wear nice flattering and comfortable suits.

Angelina Jolie looked really good in that trouser suit at the Baftas. Shows that covering up can be just as stylish.

[Boobear7]

Only just noticed the previous thread about the weather girls and it seems nothing has changed - still the same awful body con dresses. I would love to know though weather Carol Kirkwood wears a special type of corset under her dresses because she looks impossibly small and flat round her waist and tummy compared to the rest of her!
Only TV presenter who has any sense of style is Naga.

[mars2]

I've noticed this for years! I don't get as bodycon hasn't been a thing for over a decade.

[Notanotherhun]

@AnyFucker

It's kinda the raison d'etre of the S+B board.

And for someone who doesn't care too much, flip you seem a trifle overwrought

Saving this for work. "You seem a trifle overwrought." Great for management!

[notacooldad]

Blimey Boobear7 what made you resurrect a 7 year old thread!

[Craftycorvid]

There must be a secret boutique where female presenters and news anchors buy their clothes: enough synthetic fibre to constitute a fire hazard, awful colour blocking and soooo tight. Then they do the wafty arms thing.