Definition of stormy weather:
(n) :
a cloth garment, usually embellished with embroidery or jewelry, worn over the stomach from the 15th to the 18th centuries particularly by women; a brooch, often in three parts, worn over the stomach or chest in the seventeenth and eighteenth century
"of these older people many wear clothing reminiscent in some detail of home--an embroidered waistcoat or stomacher."