Hoda Kotb Can’t Dress Like Mark Zuckerberg Because She’s a Woman
When it comes to fashion, guys have it so easy. Take Mark Zuckerberg for example. He has a closet filled with multiple versions of same light gray T-shirt and dark gray hoodie. For the Facebook CEO, a lack of variety in his wardrobe ensures that he can make “as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.” But for Hoda Kotb, host of NBC’s fourth hour of morning television, reality is a little different: if she has a favorite dress that she likes to wear on rotation, she gets letters from fans telling her to cut it from her closet.
“I like simple,” Kotb said of her style on Tuesday when talking with Jenna Bush Hager about the Silicon Valley executive’s uniform. At that, Hager jumped in to describe her fellow talk show host’s look: “This is the thing about Hoda. Two things: One, she comes in everyday not in the same clothes — mostly — but a variation; she wears gray leggings or black leggings and some sort of gray top and a vest. During the summer it’s similar, but maybe jeans or leggings with little pull on sneakers, those ones that you wear everyday.”
Then, the screen flashes to a Brady Bunch-style image of six different instances when Kotb wore a black and white dress. While she insisted at first that they were all taken on the same day, earring evidence (she’s wearing different pairs) proved her wrong. “I can’t find that dress! Joanne, did you hide it?” Kotb exclaimed, accusatorially asking Joanne, presumably her stylist or producer, where it went.
But that’s not the only sheath that gets lots of airtime. As Hager explained, “Another thing about her, which I love, is that you like to wear the same seven dresses in a rotation.” Kotb does this until the fashion police, otherwise known as her daily watchers, write in to Rockefeller Center. “There was a red dress and everyone kept saying retire it and then I did eventually or someone took it,” Kotb admitted. “And that pink dress I wear to death.”
On Facebook, the video inspired a conversation about how Kotb should be allowed to re-wear outfits because that’s what everyone does in real life off of the studio set. “We have no right to complain, I could be wrong, but the majority of us wear the same clothing at least once a month,” Patsy Hurndon-Garrett wrote. “If you are extremely wealthy, a star who get clothes loaned to them, maybe you want wear a piece of clothing more than once, but you are who you are, continue to keep it simple and to heck with those who don’t like it.” Sally Edwards added, “I love that you are smart enough not to wear a different dress every day. Only ego driven princesses do that. Even princess Kate wears her clothes more than once.” Touché, Sally.
The juxtaposition of Zuckerberg and Kotb’s style is interesting. While he embraces his uniform in an almost altruistic way, she squealed in embarrassment when confronted with the fact that she’s an outfit repeater. Double standards are real, people.
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