How many styles of red dresses are there anyway?”įreezing temperatures are a problem in the studio, too. Patterns are tough with the lights and camera.
Too baggy will make you look frumpy. Black every day is boring. Too tight will make you look like ready for the dance club. “Sometimes what to wear is biggest stress of my job,” the Weather Channel’s Jen Carfagno told me over email. Their jobs require clothes that are comfortable enough to move around in (the sweeping arms of a cold front! the quick steps of an incoming hurricane!), fancy enough for a TV broadcast, and cheap enough to buy more than one. Meteorologists, it turns out, are hungry for clothing recommendations. The low price point wide variety of bright colors stretchy fabric and flattering, structured cut made it a shoo-in for meteorologists who need to build a high-volume wardrobe without, in most cases, an employer-provided clothing budget. The dress costs around $23 on Amazon and $61 straight from the vendor, Homeyee, a China-based e-commerce site whose website is full of “lorem ipsum” placeholders and mistranslations.