The Vanishing Point - NY Times

[SWB]

There's a pretty funny article on today's NY Times about the skinny boy model epidemic.

Once the Hedi Slimanization got started, all anyone wanted to cast was the scrawny kid who looked like he got sand kicked in his face.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/fashion/shows/07DIARY.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

...the idea of bulking up now seems retro when musicians and taste arbiters like Devendra Banhart boast of having starved themselves in order to look good in clothes.

Banhart's a "taste arbiter"? What the hell.

[constant struggle]

it is pretty true though most of the article...

and even so i personally want to lose 5 lbs or so, just so the clothes fit better

[geekbonchic]

Fitting the clothes isn't really the problem, it's affording them.

[constant struggle]

thats true, but if you can afford them and cant fit in them, it won't help

[cheep]

damn my muscular thighs... they are holding me back from being the top male model in the world. i got all the other measurements right on.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

yeah, that's my height and weight exactly. 29/30 waist, though. too bad i am ugly as sin with bad skin.

[cheep]

yep... i got the 35" chest, but damn 23" thighs

[kunk75]

try finding shit when you're 6'2 and 230. sucks ass living in the gym only to have to have sweaters blocked and sz us48 suits taken in like 8 inches at the waist.

[cheep]

why would you want to look like that tho?

[kunk75]

look like what?

[constant struggle]

a meathead

[kunk75]

not as crazy looking as you would think. always been an athlete, just took it to the next level. i don't walk like a gorilla or anything.

[cheep]

bruce lee was next level, but i bet hed fit in dior homme.

[constant struggle]

yeah seriously, i want to be fit from doing exercise outside, going on a walk in the woods, mountain biking, something like that, natural muscles

[cheep]

exactly... and ive found most girls like that more than the bodybuilder look.

[kunk75]

i wear a us56 in dior and jill sander suits. it's better for me cause big sizes are always left on the sales rack. i run, basketball in addition to the weights. just the way i is.

[kunk75]

i'm married to a tiny little woman so we look kind of ridiculous together sometimes and she never liked the big muscley look til but she's used to it.

[Dead_Wizard]

I think there is a happy medium between waifishly thin and MEATHEAD. Still, if a designer has a vision for his clothing theres no reason he shouldn't design for a particular silhouette.

[kunk75]

btw, meant a US46

[broneck]

measurements like this fuck with my head. . . I'm 6'1" and I weight about 165. . . only 10 pounds more than the uber-skinny dior models? This does not compute.

[domdomdomdom]

fat doesnt weigh as much as muscle

[broneck]

ohhh, right, i'm fat.

shit.

[kunk75]

i have fat dude's ask me "what do you weigh? 190?" they don't want to know that i'm the same weight as them but they wear sz 42 pants under their gut.

[6MT]

fuck, why dont we all get together and smoke some crack, we will be on our way.

this is truely narcism to the next level

[kunk75]

i used to know some dude that smoked dust for brakfast lunch and dinner and had like 20 inch thighs. so dust it is. i just have to lose 90 pounds.

[calvin1663]

haha, some friends read this article, one girl was saying how she hates "unmasculine" men, she was going on and on about fashion and how skinny boys aren't fashionable at all....while wearing uggs

[willy cheesesteak]

i've got all those measurements but damn my 31 inch waist!

[Handlethevibe]

If you're under 5'9 those measurements also drop like 2 inches each.

[sleazie ninja number 47]

i think ben, the tennessee prison guard, on make me a supermodel is a closet gay.

[chingon]

i'm fucked. 5'8, 30 inch waist and huge thighs.

I might as well be wearing board shorts and hurley shirts.