Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Formative Influence

While making catty comments about another lifter's gym shorts yesterday morning, I offered the possibility that they may have been ordered from "International Male".  met by an inquisitive look by one of the trainers, my workout partner and I I tried to explain the importance of said publication on young men of a certain persuasion.  He was very amused. Sadly it's no longer in existence, and I shudder to think of what refugees from Lord know what war or natural disater are wearing all the unsold clothing.


Does anyone else of my generation remember this pre-Internet-gateway-drug-to-gay-porn?  Or anyone ever actually ordered any of the clothing?

4 comments:

The Cool Cookie said...

Is that Joe Manganiello in the top picture, without a mustache?

Garret said...

I do remember this catalog and marveled at the sheerness of some of the underwear which showed wonderful outlines of some hardbodied guy's wiener. I never had the body to order and wear anything from there but I lusted over it nonetheless.

The Cool Cookie said...

They had this HORRIBLE fish net shirt called the STOKER. Whenever we would see a guy at a bar wearing one we would have a hard time suppressing our laughter, because it was so gay.

ilduce said...

I find that most folks wearing sheer or clingy clothing in public are the Last folks who should be wearing sheer or clingy clothing.