High on Dry: Clothes, Accesories That Play in the Rain

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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, manager 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 poncho ($75, Marimekko, 8519 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring; 800-656-3587) and carries a Pylones umbrella from Fred Flare ($30, Fredflare.com.

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Written by Express contributor Ashley Joy Parker
Model, CIMA Talent Management.
Hair and makeup by Debra Camille Scott, CIMA Talent Management.
Photos by Marge Ely/Express