Gary Archibald, Weathercaster

Hmmm… I was driving my car down the Long Island Expressway last week in the afternoon… it was warm, humid, the sun blazing the mercury all the up to 86 degrees – feeling like 91 with the humidity factored in. It was a very summer-like day in the latter stages of spring. The glare of the sun was intense. The sun visors were down as I was driving into the solar blind. Traffic was in fact moving – surprise, surprise…

But what was more attention-grabbing was the sight of this dog, riding shotgun in a late model SUV. As it pulled up along side my car, this canine, his head leaning out of the window, turned his head and looked at me.

Did I mention that the dog was wearing shades?

Isabella, a Pug owned by Linda Felice of Romulus, N.Y., knows that fashion is for the dogs.

No joke. Big, dark sunglasses – the kind that eighties New Wave bands wore in their cheesy, under-produced, horribly written and poorly directed classics that we know and love to this day (at least Generation X’ers of my day). I laughed. That image still puts a smile on my face to this day. Let’s face it – dogs sport fashion too, and weather conditions play a part. In bright sunshine, expect to see Sparky and Princess break out the Oakleys, Ray-Bans, CK, and Gucci eyeglass wear.

PHOTOS: Check out some fine examples of fashionable dogs.

Cheers!

Gary