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B3B3 Posts: 25,213
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I've just had a heated discussion with Mr B3.
I posit that a newsreader in high heels and a frilly party dress lacks gravitas. There's even one who looks like she's reading the news in her nightdress.
Would a male newsreader dress as if he was on the way out to a party?
I don't want to watch women whom I assume to be highly qualified journalists delivering the news in a party dress that is one size too small.  It smacks of companies insisting that female employees wear high heels at work.
Smart and professional is more appropriate. I want to concentrate on the news. If I want to look at frilly dresses,I'll look at a shopping channel.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,648
    I agree with you. And then there's the weather presenters  :o
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,705
    I'm all for the weather presenters.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 9,359
    raisingirl said:
    And then there's the weather presenters  :o
    Clare from the Met Office Youtube channel could win style awards. I don't know how much gravitas you can have looking like a pair of 1960s curtains but she pulls it off well I think. B)


    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,275
    edited May 2022
    The Italian equivalent of the met office is under the auspices of their Air Force. Consequently forecasters used to, maybe still are, Air Force personnel in full fig. Gravitas with pips on.
    Rutland, England
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Good heavens! We're reasonably grave on Channel 4. And our local crew are downright demure.  Do you think the Jubilee has gone to their heads?
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,894
    We’ve just spent the whole time debating about the dress on our weather girl, OH thought it looked like lightening strikes, I didn’t think it suited her at all, something wrong with the skirt,  the top was too tight, we both said afterwards, so what’s tomorrow’s weather doing. 
    I’m waiting for Clive Myrie to present the news in an Hawaiian shirt. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • mikeymustardmikeymustard Posts: 495
    wild edges said:
    raisingirl said:
    And then there's the weather presenters  :o
    Clare from the Met Office Youtube channel could win style awards. I don't know how much gravitas you can have looking like a pair of 1960s curtains but she pulls it off well I think. B)


    maybe she needs to pull herself together 🙄
  • B3B3 Posts: 25,213
    she pulls it off well I think. B
    I didn't realise the weather forecast had become so racy😳
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,081
    Right now, I don't care what they're wearing. I'm more peeved at the fact that when I turn on the Breakfast news just now it seems to be all about jubilee 'events' and hardly any news.  :|

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Radio 4 is the place to go. No problems with dress code there.
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