GRAY CLOUDS AND SOGGY SKIES don't have to rain on your fashion parade. With all the hip-yet-monsoon-ready trench coats, groovy umbrellas and stompingly cool boots around, bad weather might just make you look good.
Even higher-end designers (Chloe, Nanette Lepore) have gone out in the rain with way-beyond-Gorton's fisherman trenches in eye-popping hues.
Such revved-up storm styles give "folks not otherwise comfortable with unusual prints or bold, bright colors a chance to go to town," says Marni Frankel, owner of Silver Spring's Marimekko.
Add a pair of wild wellies and a 'brella with attitude, which Frankel thinks "gives bounce to your step on a rainy day." That should help you jump over all those pesky puddles.
Jennifer wears a Marimekko Ruusupuu poncho ($75, Marimekko, 8519 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring; 800-656-3587;marimekkowashingtondc.com) and carries a Pylones umbrella from Fred Flare.
The Ruusupuu Poncho & Umbrella, Art by Maija Isola, 1957
