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.