Between comfortable and sexy (1)
27 Jun 2009 Leave a Comment
in Big Pants, Dandified Splendor, Firrer Bodies, Fitted Clothing, Less Reluctant, More Power View, Unmistakable Signs, Upper-body Parts Tags: Abs, Animal Kingdom, Biceps, Blowsy Pants, Brand Identity, Broadside Display, Cobras, Fashionista-tight, Gorillas, Ill-fitting Trousers, Lats, Modern Man, Mysterious Blobs, Peacock Revolution, Pecs, Power View, Sexy Fit, Slyest Ironies, Splendor, teenager-baggy
Good morning friends. If you were to be asked, what would you choose between comfortable and sexy? You can be sexy anytime you want but sometimes you don’t feel comfortable with that. And sometime with all your best you feel sexy and comfortable the way you are. I want to share you one article I read by David Colman.
It is one of the driest, slyest ironies of the Peacock Revolution of the last decade. As men have turned themselves out in dandified splendor, they have all but neglected the signature aspect of the peacock’s glory.
That is, the tail.
As we know, much care and money have gone into fitted clothing and fitter bodies. But most has ended up above the waist. This has left modern man with, aside from his jeans, a stack of ill-fitting trousers that leave his backside looking like one of those mysterious blobs that wash up on beaches once a decade to baffle scientists and freak out locals.
“Men have been terrified of wearing pants that are too tight,” said Daniel Peres, the editor of Details, “so we err on the side of big, blowsy pants.”
Similarly, men seeking to improve their bodies by lifting weights have focused on those upper-body parts—pecs, lats, biceps, abs—that create a more powerful view from the front. (A similar ploy, it’s worth noting, is widespread in the animal kingdom, from cobras to gorillas, where it is known as “broadside display.”) Backside display hasn’t gotten a single squat lift.
At least, not until now. There are unmistakable signs that men are becoming less reluctant to build up their haunches and wear pants cut to flatter, not flatten, them. Trainers have noticed. So have designers, who are cutting pants that are not fashionista-tight or teenager-baggy, but as Goldilocks would say, had she hit puberty, just right. One new clothing company has been bold enough to make a trimly sexy fit the key to its brand identity.
