two quickie sundries

[rm]

Haven't read either of these yet:

Caster Semenya keeps medal: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/19/world/AP-ATH-Semenya-Medal.html

Androgynous style: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/fashion/19ANDROGYNY.html

Comments

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Re the ambiguous style, basically this:

“To carry it off, you need the physique of an adolescent boy.”

Which esentially means that young men and slender women (of a wider age range) can do it, but no one else. Adult men with sholders and bulk cannot, (see all the 'slim' look pants they're talking about?) and women with curves/weight cannot do it easily. It isnt' really ambiguous, it's another ieteration of the youth focused style/culture we have going on in this country; it's about looking like that adolsecent boy - an image that has been persued for decades.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And one I have to say I don't find very interesting. The contortions I go through with my tailor so I don't look twelve are sort of endless.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know several women who want to be seen as adults who go through a slew of shennanigans to avoid the pre-pubescent boy look.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Then again, if I can manage bodysuits and suchlike, it's not like many other guys my age can't.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

You weigh barely 100 pounds. You have a very unusual body type for a man.