The Way Women Dress on TV

I don’t care what women wear on tv as long as they are not told to wear cleavage bearing tops or other body baring clothes as a condition of their job.

It would hardly be written into their contract but I suspect it is rather expected of women to be glammed-up. Gone are the days of Sue Lawley, Angela Rippon etc wearing sensible suits and blouses - the equivalent of a man in a suit & tie.

Even Fatima Manji on Channel 4, who is a Muslim and covers her hair, wears striking glamorous clothes and full make-up.

Meanwhile all the guys are in plain suits.

“The eastEnders show a pp mentioned that dressed up a 14 year old girl in a skimpy dress is not on. What girls and children wear on tv really matters imo.”

It’s the 10 yr olds dressed in skimpy clothes that the real problem, so many mothers dress their young daughters a little clones of themselves, it’s awful.

I feel the same about this, but thought it was just me being old fashioned.

All women deliberately sexualise themselves or not as the case may be, each morning we choose what to wear, those that choose to show a lot of flesh shouldnt grumble that it attracts attention or criticism.

Although I’ve got generous breasts I never show a cleavage, it’s just not my style, so I’ve no sympathy with those that get unwanted attention.

Hate cleavage being on show in general. That is my viewpoint.

I don’t care what women wear on tv as long as they are not told to wear cleavage bearing tops or other body baring clothes as a condition of their job.

The eastEnders show a pp mentioned that dressed up a 14 year old girl in a skimpy dress is not on. What girls and children wear on tv really matters imo.

To the pp that mentioned her daughter is not allowed to wear open toed shoes - this may be an insurance thing. Workplace safety etc.

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I think there’s too much skin exposed altogether these days one way and another. On our flight home from Spain recently many women (not just the young ‘uns either) were dressed in vest tops and short shorts. Sitting next to and in close proximity to someone’s armpits isn’t very nice.

I have never understood why anyone travels in vest top and shorts over the age of 11.

I always wonder if they have run out of clean clothes for the return journey.

I think there’s too much skin exposed altogether these days one way and another. On our flight home from Spain recently many women (not just the young ‘uns either) were dressed in vest tops and short shorts. Sitting next to and in close proximity to someone’s armpits isn’t very nice.

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.

In Egypt Bettany Hughes was at times wearing a long scarf which covered her much on display cleavage; other times the scarf was off.

During one clip with no scarf the poor Egyptian chap didn't know where to look - it's inappropriate attire, IMO.

The boobs could be covered a bit better rather than in your face it looks undressed.
The shoes presenters wear are so high they are like stilts these days. I wore high heels on a night out when young but they looked more sensible than what’s worn now.

Yes, that is a better comparison, Riverwalk. Thanks for that.

When our daughter was in her first year at university she used to go riding on Wednesday afternoons, she got cheered and wolf whistled as she lift the complex in jodhpurs, long boots and shirt!
She reckoned that the same apparel in a nightclub would have much greater effect than a sparkly dress that started late and finished early.

I think it more equivalent to crotch-hugging trousers - it's drawing attention in a sexual manner.

Builder's bum is more accidental as the trousers slide down over the beer belly - not sexy at all!

Excess boobage is the equivalent of builder's bum.

Well, back in the day I certainly wore mini skirts to work. Did not have any other length dresses or skirts!!!

I have always been over-amply endowed in the boobs department, caused me much distress when I was a teenager, even to the extent of wearing over-sized sweaters to conceal them. Took me a lot of growing up to be able to be able to cope, but have always disliked anything drawing attention to that part of my anatomy. But never mind it in others.

Must say, my pet dislike are the ridiculous high heeled shoes worn by so many females on TV (including those in The Apprentice). Always looks so silly to me, wearing these with trousers, etc. So bad for their feet - they will suffer in the future

I certainly agree. Inappropriate.

Always fascinates me when we have a male and female presenting a show how well the male is covered whereas the female has often strapless or cleavage revealing outfit. This is at any time of the day whereas such fanciful clothing used to be restricted to evenings. I do wonder how much say any female has in what she wears. I find cleavage singularly unattractive in everyone but particularly the more well endowed.

I couldn't agree more. Most of them look as though they are going on a night out.
Yes, we used to dress with mini skirts etc, but not for work, there doesn't seem to be any sense of propriety these days.

Best kept to the beach perhaps?

I’ve always been rather flat-chested, and although I would often have liked to have been better endowed in the boob department, I don’t like to see heaps of cleavage displayed when it’s not appropriate.

Just looks tarty, but I suppose I’m not allowed to say that anymore.

My daughter works in a private school and they are not allowed to have open toed shoes, jeans, shorts and certainly no cleavage can be displayed. The open toed shoes bit is strange but I suppose it is because it is against school rules for the pupils and they want staff to set an example.

Do you mean the historian Bettany Hughes op? She’s extremely voluptuous
I don’t like to see a lot of boobage. I’d feel really uncomfortable myself showing any cleavage at all.

Maybe having to wear school uniform in our day – which was almost always extraordinarily unflattering – guided us, without us realising, towards matching the clothes to the situation. So we went for [our idea of] business clothes at work, party clothes at, well, parties and something in between at the rest of the time. That might have been jeans and tee shirts, mini-skirts and ridiculous shoes or a number of really outrageous things for those of us who were really outrageous.

There is a lot of bosom about I agree. Motsi on Strictly seems to have great difficulty controlling hers.