Stick thin men are fashionable, why?!?

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I don't think that many men follow what fashion designers tell them looks good. A few men in Hollywood are manerexic like Carson Daily and Rocco Despirito, but that's it.

Plus you have to have a very small frame to carry 6' tall and 145#.

I am 6' tall and looked gaunt when I got to 170.
 

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Well, I guess I am a bit too late.

When I was 21 I carried 132 pounds. I was and still am six feet tall. In fact if I had been five pounds lighter I could not have joined the Military.

Yes I was skinny. I did have a waist of 32 inches when I completed basic training. But then, I also gained eleven pounds in nine weeks and I looked healtheir.

That was way back in 1961. Wow!!!!!!!

I could have been a model.

See what I missed out on.
 

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The fact that fashion idolises the slimmer figure has nothing to do with what people find attractive in men. It just makes the clothes look more appealing, therefore selling more clothes which is what the fashion industry is all about.
In short, nobody wants to buy clothes that makes them look like a fat heffer!
 

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Model are very skinny because clothes look good on a hanger.
 

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The thing with these Dior guys is that they are all about 18 or 19 & most are from Europe or the UK where we don't grow up with a gym mentality, especially not in our teens. I was stick thin till my early 30's and then suddenly over night I gained about 20lbs!
 

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The "skinny" trend for men is going to leave me odd-man-out. I've got a stocky, weightlifter body type despite the fact I spend most of my exercise time running, swimming and biking.
 

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NJ, I am 5'10" and 135lbs, and I eat like a fucking horse. No matter what I do, I can never gain weight. I guess I should be thankful for that. But I really do hate it. I have wide hips, so I am a 30 waist, not 28.:wink:

At least I don't try to highlight it by wearing skinny ass, pencil leg jeans. :rolleyes:

You're me 13 years ago! Want to see what you're going to look like when you're my age (if you don't exercise)? See the attached pic. You have been warned.
 

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I don't like skinny guys either. When I was in high school, I got asked out by a very close friend of mine who was SKINNY as could be. You could see each individual rib of his when he had his shirt off...

Yeah, that was me in high school and until I was about 25. I'm 200 lbs. now, but all that weight is in my gut. My chest, shoulders, and arms are still really skinny, and you can still pretty much see my ribs.

I saw that article in today's paper. Reading such a report might have afforded me some consolation when I was as skinny as the guys in that article...It is a little irritating to see the sort of body that I used to have come into fashion only after I have worked my way to a better one.

Agreed, except that I never got around to getting that better body. As I got older and my metabolism slowed, I just got fat. Before I was fat, I was skinny. I was never buff. Even if I had worked out when I was younger, I don't think I could ever have achieved buff. I just would have had a toned, skinny body. I just don't think I have the genetic predisposition to allow me to develop big muscles. (I'm what they used to call an ectomorph.) So I don't necessarily object to the skinny look becoming fasionable, I just wish it had happened 15 years ago.

I find it in fact refreshing that the pendulum is finally swinging away from the proto-human steroids-inflated gorilla of the Rambo era. I like men, not male primates.

I share that sentiment (and again wish that it had happened when I could have enjoyed it), but today's models are taking it to an extreme. They are just way too skinny. To be 6' tall or more and to have a 28" or 29" inch waist? That's just not natural or healthy. Even when I weighed 135 lbs. or so (back in college), my waist was 31", and I'm under 6'.

Of course, there is a difference between being Skinny and being Trim. I think those swimmer bodies can be quite attractive, but people need to have some sort of muscle definition.

Agreed.

A not-so-minor detail we seem to be forgetting here is that the models are only vehicles to sell menswear. Designers choose models not because they represent the public (they NEVER did) but because they are good ambassadors for their ware.

Yeah, but what's the point of creating clothes that real people can't actually wear? I have trouble finding shirts and jackets that fit around me, and there are a lot of guys in the world bigger than me.

I don't think that the tastes of fashion designers are any indication of the tastes of the general public. I certainly hope that they are not, and that no man with a well-muscled body who is not an aspiring fashion model would waste himself away to look like those guys.

No, but all the young guys I see at the bars and clubs have adopted or embraced this look. I'm not talking about New York or L.A., either, but rural Western Massaschusetts. (It's mostly gay boys, of course. I don't know if straight boys have been infected by this trend. Actually, yes I do. Goth boys and "Emo" boys look like this, too, and they're generally straight.) I can't believe how small their jeans are. I think a lot of them are wearing girls' jeans. They don't know it yet, but they're going to have to starve themselves to stay that thin (if they aren't doing so already). If they continue to not exercise, as they age and their metabolism slows, they will end up putting on weight and looking like me.

One thing that really worries me is that I've overheard some of them talking about taking hydroxycut to stay thin. They take it like it's a multi-vitamin. They're going to develop health problems as they get older.

Well, I think skinny can look okay as long as it has some balance...[but]...These fasion twigs....male or female look disgusting because they bride themselves in going over the top and getting rid of ALL body fat with pills and throwing up....its gross.

Right.

Plus skinny means (to me) boney which means bruises in places you dont want them!!!

It's true! I seem to have gotten thicker skinned with the weight gain, but when I was younger every little bump left a mark. My mother always worried that people were going to think I was being abused at home. With every new bruise she'd say, "What did you do?" and my reply was always, "I dunno." Most of the time I didn't even know that I had a bruise, let alone how I got it.

...I think most women do prefer guys with meat on their bones, and preferably in the arms, butt, and chest...

Those are the three places where I didn't gain weight. Of course, I'm not trying to attract women, anyway.
 

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I think the very thin male models look great. They are very young and we all looked like that when we were their age. As the spawn of of very thin models in the 70s I have a natural appreciation of that look and feel as though at 6'1" and 160 as in my pics. that I am a little heavy. I see nothing wrong with it.
 
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Some of the models shown in those Fashion Spot pages are twinks indeed (barely legal weaklings), but some have very refined features and muscle tone.

Let's put it this way:

Those "skinny" models could increase their muscle mass to your satisfaction in a matter of weeks.

The run-of-the-mill Van Damme wannabes could NEVER get those models' eyes, lips or other 1-in-1-million facial features.
 

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I'm 6" 170lbs, with a 33" waist and a 46" chest. I have to work my ass off to maintain. Especially difficult has I get older (46).

Who gives a shit what designers, think...
 

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The problem is the pendulum in fashion always swings to the extreme, from beefy super Rambo to waif thin, I don't think we'll ever see the extreme of portly and proud, as chubby chasers are generally off the mainstream and the health dangers inherent with being overweight.

If someone is starving himself(or herself) or resorting to drugs and diet aids to acheive the "new ideal' thin of the runway, then that is as unhealthy as sedentary and overweight. Naturally thin is as healthy as any normal physique, and most lanky males will bulk up after thirty-they usually don't get the middle age spread the larger physiques among us, myself included, must continually battle. The gaunt sunken eye-socket look is a bad message of body ideal to send out to anyone male or female. I don't think I need to mention how many lives have been cut short by eating disorders such as anorexia and bulemia and I hope that this doesn't result in a growing number of young males succumbing to disorders that have shattered so many women's lives.

In the face of an ever growing size and weight, waif thin may be an ideal that few will ever be able to acheive and idealizing this look can result in choices as unhealthy as those leading to a growing obesity problem. Yes, improved diets and nutrition has resulted in the average height and weight increasing in the last 45+ years, but the United States has seen a growing obesity problem in land of plenty in the areas of food and leisure.

There are numerous examples of attractive thin people and I doubt anyone can argue Audrey Hepburn wasn't a classic beauty in an era when curvier women were more accepted. By today's standards, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Mae West, and Susan Hayward would have been too overweight to be sex symbols or exude anything resembling glamor. They were fortunate to live in a time when a variety of body types were more accepted and today the media, not just fashion, seems to promote a more androgynous look. The message of men should be smooth and thin shouldn't be the universal ideal, as most men are thin and hairless, though hair can be shaven with little harm, at least that can be one's aesthetic ideal, but not another's and not cause irreversible damage or harm.
 

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You're me 13 years ago! Want to see what you're going to look like when you're my age (if you don't exercise)? See the attached pic. You have been warned.

Oh man!

Oh, good. Well, if you lose your motivation, just look at my pic and think "This is my future."

I will, thanks!:biggrin1:

Chubby is sexy. Dont ever degrade yourself for being the person you are. We dont all want rock hard abs

So Lee, what do you want? :flirt: