<p>@BTMell – I so wish that you could. I know that it seems quite desirable to have our problem, but truly it’s not good. The weather may be nice, but no water is a real problem. Produce prices will go up, water prices too, and we will have severe rationing and fines for exceeding certain water usage. Basic landscaping (lawns, etc) will die, because no one will be allowed to water ( probably 3 times per week between midnight and 4am only or you are fined big bucks). I’d rather have the snow</p>
<p>Inappropriate dress for the weather is a pet peeve of mine and my husband and I have had a few conversations about the weird outfits of the news women. It’s just strange for me to be sitting in my home wearing three layers, knowing it’s the same temp where the news is being done and the woman news person is sleeveless. Meanwhile the male news person is wearing a button down shirt and jacket. I get cold just looking at the women and can’t help questioning their intelligence, especially if they combine that with spiky shoes. This blurb from the above post <a href=“Female TV newscasters and the sleeveless sheath dress”>http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/04/female_tv_newscasters_and_the_sleeveless_sheath_dress.html</a> was illuminating,
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<p>I think TV studios tend to be pretty chilly because of air conditioning. At least that’s what a friend of mine who was once a newscaster told me. She said the women who went on the air had to …make adjustments…to make sure a certain part of their anatomy did not show though their clothes too much, because of the cold.</p>
<p>All because Michelle Obama let all that hype about her arms get to her head. She wanted her arms to be acknowledged and revered, despite it being the dead of winter.</p>
<p>I’m like PetraElise- we are in So. Calif. and it has rarely been below 70 this year (really hot and windy right now), so sleeveless doesn’t bother me. I do agree with what someone else mentioned in that I have recently noticed that women doing the weather seem to dress like they are going out clubbing, even on the early morning broadcasts. Some of them look really ridiculous!</p>
<p>20 days in a row in the low 80’s where I live. Sleeveless is fine here. We wear white after labor day too…gasp. </p>
<p>Do you wear sleeveless outfits with black opaque hose?</p>
<p>If you are watching broadcasts from a warm location than I can understand the no sleeves. If I see posts on FB from friends in Hawaii or some Island, I expect them to be wearing shorts and not have sleeves. It would be out of place to see them bundled up. That’s how it seems when we see women in sleeveless dresses when the broadcast is from NYC. It’s not as if any of us go to work without jackets and sweaters, and speaking for myself, pants. I find the “clubbing” clothes weird too. It’s more about business apparel, AFAIK.</p>
<p>I still see no problem showing off toned and shaved upper arms. I draw the line though with newscasters wearing mini skirts, shorts and outfits that show off major cleavage. </p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>PetraElise, you live in a desert. You shouldn’t have lawns.</p>
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PetraElise, you live in a desert. You shouldn’t have lawns.
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<p>How do you know the grass referred to was in a lawn?
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<p>I think most of the national morning show women look great with their bare arms. They also seem to choose or are dressed in “day dresses” which I don’t find inappropriate. What bugs me are the local newscasters who look like they’re going out for cocktails at 6am. Some don’t seem to get that not every dress or embellished necklace says “morning commute traffic and weather” in the same way. </p>
<p>Oh no. Bare arms. The sky is falling.</p>
<p>As long as they are not bearing arms… ;)</p>
<p>Well they could be bearing arms IN bare arms! And then we’d all be up in arms!</p>
<p>Do we really have over 70 posts criticizing women for what they are wearing on TV? Especially when it seems to be essentially universal, at least in TV news-land? Don’t we have anything better to do?</p>
<p>Like maybe go after the men: Does anyone notice that all of the men on TV news have the top button of their three-button suits closed? Do you realize that no men wear their suits like that in real life? If a man walked around dressed like that in real life, and he wasn’t Wes Anderson or some other suitably hip artiste, he would be regarded as maybe a little challenged in his ability to pick up on social dress cues. But apparently it’s thought to look better on TV. I am sure it has been thoroughly tested.</p>
<p>Bare-armed women, too, probably.</p>
<p>The quality of the news programs is so crappy, all I have left is to critique the on-air talents’ articulation, hair, makeup, accessories and clothing. Oh, and the sets and CGs. So yuck. </p>
<p>I’m not crazy about the sleeveless newsroom attire. I’m not being sexist … wouldn’t like bare arms on the men either. </p>
<p>Since the last time I watched TV anchors for whom I had any respect was when I lived in the KTVU viewing zone (Oakland-SF Bay), I guess I don’t really care what the women are wearing. They are not wearing the no sleeves, short hemlines, tight-across-the-bust outfits for my benefit. I just wonder why Fox, in particular, has a fixation on blonde hair. Thank goodness I don’t really watch much of Fox, but sometimes, when I want to catch up on national news, I start with Fox, but often go to CNN just so I can see some women who are not bleached blonde.</p>
<p>There is something to be said for the 80s Dress for Success suits that women wore. I really wonder whether women these days who show up to work, or on TV, wearing the sleeveless, short dresses and spiky heels are taking as seriously as the women who paved the way for them.</p>
<p>As far as a male anchor showing up bare-armed, unless they have the arms of a man who knows how to do manual labor and fix things around the house, then keep those arms covered :)</p>