// posted August 18, 2009 by Lou Schuler
According to the New York Times, the “coolios” among us — the first movers, the Influentials, the ones who get their fashion tips from celestial sources and force the less favored among us to play perpetual catch-up — are fat.
Not obese, mind you. Just skinny at the ends and round in the middle. In the words of a magazine editor, the hipsters are “proudly rocking a gut.”
The author, Guy Trebay, quotes his own trainer for this passage:
[A]s lean muscle and functionality become the new gym mantras, hypertrophied He-Men with grapefruit biceps and blister-pack abs have come to resemble specimens from a diorama of “A Vanished World.”
“When do you ever see that guy, anyway?” Mr. Morea asked, referring to those legendary Men’s Health cover models, with their rippling torsos and famished smiles. “The only time you really see that guy, he’s standing in front of an Abercrombie & Fitch…
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