The Way Women Dress on TV

GrannyGravy13

Ilovecheese well said, it’s not easy being big breasted, especially if you are also small framed and only 5’2”

Yes I agree. I don’t suffer from lack of esteem, but get fed up sourcing clothes from websites where models showing them are 5ft 10in and size 8. No boobs in sight. Jackets never look great on me either.

Admittedly, I often feel critical of clothes worn by Newsreaders or weather people and wish they would avoid patterns. The clothes I like to see on them most are bright plain colours (no patterns!) with simple tailoring. Anything else is distracting.

I also dislike anything that Holly Willoghby wears. I cannot think of anyone on TV whose style I admire, but am glad fashion is more modest.

Sorry to go on about this but for most of my youth I had judgements made about my character because of the shape of my perfectly normal healthy body.
When I was 11 one of our student lodgers gave me a roll neck sleeveless ribbed jumper. I was thrilled to bits, the first piece of fashionable clothing I had ever had. I was so proud. Well my mother soon wiped the smile off my face when she saw me in it. I had absolutely no idea what it was I had done wrong!
Maybe the children in the cinema queue had no idea either.
Grannygrave13 is quite correct, the boys had no manners and needed educating.
Since the age of about 35 I have refused to hunch over to try to hide, I have good posture whether anybody likes it or not. I am not "flaunting" and never have been,

Kalu I agree about tight clothing. Which brings up another observation although not confined to tv. While pregnancy is a special time for women why do they also wear tight clothes that emphasise their tummies or tops that ride up showing their bare bellies. Women can look so elegant in loose tops or dresses and still be seen as pregnant.

I have conflicting opinons.

Firstly, I think what women wear is up to them.

But contrastingly, I think that in the work place, a uniform standard should be applied to both men and women. I don't want to see anyone's underwear while I'm at work (thin tops for women, low rise trouers with pants above for men).

Finally, I've been both big boobed and small boobed (post breast cancer). Those saying it is hard to cover big boobs are right. A non low cut shirt on me with my previously large boobs was revealing. Now, with smaller boobs, the same shirt is very modest. The only way for big boobed women to avoid this is to add an extra layer underneath, with a camisole.

MarilynneT33

Kalu I agree about tight clothing. Which brings up another observation although not confined to tv. While pregnancy is a special time for women why do they also wear tight clothes that emphasise their tummies or tops that ride up showing their bare bellies. Women can look so elegant in loose tops or dresses and still be seen as pregnant.

Why should women have to wear a tent whilst pregnant?

I really hope that all posters judging us large breasted women always look immaculately turned out and would be open to being judged by complete strangers.

I wore baggy things when I was pregnant, but that was a long time ago and times have changed. A lot of "Body Positivity" these days and if a woman wants to be proud of her body and what it's achieving then I get that, although I wouldn't flaunt anything myself. It doesn't bother me, we all have choices.

What a very enlightening* thread. I’m 5ft 2ins with a pair of FFs that could take someone’s eye out. Mother Nature is responsible for endowing me with them. It’s kind of difficult to disguise them, they’re stuck right out in front of me, and why should I? No matter how I dress they’re always going to be noticeable. If that makes me common as one poster has said, good.

*Sarcasm.

even quiet intelligent people do wear them on tv though
Hilarious 😂 GN at its best.
The perception of your intelligence is perceived by the height of your heals.

I can’t wear high heels. I am obviously extremely intelligent as well as common

MerylStreep

^even quiet intelligent people do wear them on tv though^
Hilarious 😂 GN at its best.
The perception of your intelligence is perceived by the height of your heals.

I have several pairs of car to bar shoes and boots with very high heels, I will continue to wear them whilst I can walk in them.

I passed my 11+ so I am obviously in good company with female TV presenters.

Blossoming

What a very enlightening* thread. I’m 5ft 2ins with a pair of FFs that could take someone’s eye out. Mother Nature is responsible for endowing me with them. It’s kind of difficult to disguise them, they’re stuck right out in front of me, and why should I? No matter how I dress they’re always going to be noticeable. If that makes me common as one poster has said, good.

*Sarcasm.

Oh blossoming that made me laugh, I am 5’2” with a 32 H bust, there is nowhere for them to hide 🤣🤣🤣🤣

To the people saying they can't understand why female presenters wear such high heels that they can barely walk in?
These women DONT walk in them. They wear flat shoes or trainers to the dressing room and then change into skyscraper, 'look at me in my high heels, showing my shapely pins in my jimmy choos, whilst sat on a sofa next to a conservatively dressed (usually twice my age) old git!

It is so funny that those who flashed their legs (and sometimes their pants) in mini skirts find low cut tops offensive. It's just a different area being exposed.

GrannyGravy13

I feel very uncomfortable discussing people’s choice of clothes and footwear, whether they are male or female.

I am petite apart from my breasts which are constantly fighting to escape despite spending a fortune on bras and expensive no gape shirts and dresses.

Perhaps it’s about time that we stopped sexualising our bodies and applaud them for the fabulous jobs they do day to day.

Agree with your first and third paras, GrannyGravy. Well said.

Glorianny

It is so funny that those who flashed their legs (and sometimes their pants) in mini skirts find low cut tops offensive. It's just a different area being exposed.

Is it really? I’m splitting my sides

Glorianny

It is so funny that those who flashed their legs (and sometimes their pants) in mini skirts find low cut tops offensive. It's just a different area being exposed.

Agree. Any hint of boobage in China is frowned upon, whereas micro mini skirts are A OK. To Western eyes, those mini skirts are obscene. As they were in the 1960s.

It's just changing fashion.

GrannyGravy13

Dinahmo the young men obviously were not in possession of manners of any sort.

You had no idea the age of the young girls unless you either knew them or asked them.

Men/boys of all ages need educating regarding their perception and general treatment of women/girls.

www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2022/nov/10/mean-moody-and-magnificent-film-noir-studio-portraits-in-pictures

I forgot to add this to my previous email.

The young men (late teens I think) were talking together and not loudly so that the girls wouldn't overhear.

As regards the age of the young girls, they weren't 10 and they weren't over 16.

I don't understand the big bust comments because its not about the size of your bust its about putting any size on display in
the wrong surroundings. A bigger bust has no reason to go
unclothed than a smaller one surely?

Bethany Hughes’s came immediately to mind. As a serious presenter her bosoms shown in full splendour seem to be shown as a fear that viewers might be fixated by them even if the programme’s content was not suited to general viewing. In fact I feel they detract from the content and denigrate the well researched work involved in these programmes.
As for those ridiculous high heels worn by newsreaders well if they are worn as their usual foot ware then bunions etc are a certainty in the near future.

halfpint1

I don't understand the big bust comments because its not about the size of your bust its about putting any size on display in
the wrong surroundings. A bigger bust has no reason to go
unclothed than a smaller one surely?

The thing is, halfpint1 when a woman has large breasts they are always "on display" unless covered by something like a burka. They can be covered with fabric from chin to waist but they will still be there and still visible, because they stick out, through no fault of the woman who has been given them by nature.

halfpint1

I don't understand the big bust comments because its not about the size of your bust its about putting any size on display in
the wrong surroundings. A bigger bust has no reason to go
unclothed than a smaller one surely?

Believe me halfpint1 they don’t need to be “unclothed” to be on display!

Crossed posts Blossoming !

Singing the same song 😊

MerylStreep

^even quiet intelligent people do wear them on tv though^
Hilarious 😂 GN at its best.
The perception of your intelligence is perceived by the height of your heals.

“Quite intelligent”, not “quiet intelligent”.

I really don’t think it’s intelligent to wear very high heels.