In an off-handed remark, I recently mentioned to some fellow Curmudgeon Societé members that I had read an article on this apparently extant fashion issue in a recent Vanity Fair. They looked at me like I had just revealed I came from Mars.
Not because I had mentioned "fashion" or "swim attire," but because I had read a Vanity Fair. After all, Vanity Fair is one of those magazines that devotes the first 100 or so pages to fashion ads - not exactly curmudgeon turf. Nonetheless, it actually has some good articles, even when they touch on things we never knew existed, like men's bathing fashions.
According to the research in this article, no rational American male would be caught dead in a Speedo. Any curmudgeon could have told them this, seeing as how we are a pleasantly overweight lot.
If a curmudgeon were ever to appear in a Speedo, I doubt there is enough Valium on the planet to numb the memory of anyone beholding it.
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