There's a point where fashion starts to have diminishing returns. Once you go past the point of showing you are socially competent with up to date clothing, the industry clearly starts to take advantage of those who were given the short end of the stick in personality or appearance and are looking to compensate. They do this by advertising overpriced clothing that follows manufactured trends , all draped on tall handsome models. This is my opinion based on seeing the most athletic/popular guys wearing simplistic clothing like athletic wear or form fitting plain t-shirts and jeans. Perhaps fashion means more in your neck of the woods. I hear in Italy there are a lot of Justin Bieber types and that being fashionable and thin are ideal. That's a surprise to me, coming from a country where gladiator worship is commonplace and where your value increases exponentially the taller and larger boned you are. I think American football being our go to sport has made us more primitive. I envy countries where small boned skinny soccer players are walking gods, instead of 6'4" Tom Brady's, 6'6" Rob Gronkowski's, or 6'9" Kris Humphries', guys whose bones are so large you could wear their ribcages as chest armor and skulls as helmets.
Yeah, I agree. The movie is a satire comic depiction the lives of the super rich. There is no point in dressing so fancy and paying for sex when you can get it for free in a relationship. There is a diminishing returns for clothing of course, and clothing can only bring you so far, you also need good body frame. Brands like Prada, Gucci, etc. sells more on the idea of high-end and ownership status than for value and looks. In my opinion, I think the best looking clothes are the ones that are simple in design and don't bring attention to oneself. This includes clothing in relaxed fit and non-shiny colour. But of course, everyone's taste is different.
Yeah, the program that we watch, the people around us and the sum of your life experience all have an effect on what we think is aesthetic. For football fans, the guys you mention would be ideal. In Italy the fashsion conscious group associates the skinny and pretty face you see in Vogue magazine as ideal. People who watch cartoon like Musicmaker thinks her hero is ideal. For bodybuilder who I meet at the gym, the massive oversize body type are beautiful. So you're right, it varies from geography and culture.
For me personally, I watch MMA (Mixed Martial Art) and I also work in the corporate world. Being a bodybuilder looks great without clothes on but I plan on wearing clothes for the large chunk of my life. So for me, the ideal body composition would be where the body mass is enough for functionality but not so much that it hinders wearing clothes. A typical MMA fighter's body would be ideal.
The video below highlights the importance of clothing in the corporate world.
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