Where Are All the Plus-Size Male Models? (By Amy Odell for NY Magazine)

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NY MAG:
Few issues in fashion rile people up as much as diversity. From race to size and shape, the industry is consistently tasked with expanding and defending its narrow view of beauty. Men have clearly not gotten the same consideration as women in this arena. If they had, we might not have to wonder: Where are all the plus-size male models?

Discerning male shoppers, just like women, crave a hint of realism in fashion imagery from time to time. “Everyone’s looking to find someone who represents themselves in some way or another,” says 31-year-old sometime big-and-tall model Jermain Hollman. “I would like to see bigger, more athletic-looking models.” At 6’5” and 230 pounds, Hollman has been booked by modeling agents for jobs, but never signed by them. He would love to model full-time, and is always looking for representation, but thinks that the most a big-and-tall model can make out of the job is a “decent side career.” “Maybe designers or whoever like the way clothes fit on [straight-size] models,” he adds. “Men my size would like to wear those clothes as well.”

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4 COMMENTS

  1. 230 lbs? My fuzzy ass! He’s upwards of 265 or more. That ain’t 6′ 5” 230. Either that or he has very little lean muscle mass!

  2. Bigger more ‘atheletic’ models?

    Okay, I have nothing against people who are heftier, be it by choice or do to unfortunate health problems (my own mother suffers from hypothyroidism), and I honestly do agree that they’re in need of more representation in society.

    BUT!!!! Let’s be honest, I don’t think anyone would call a guy with a large protruding gut ‘athletic’. It’s about as stupid as those very overweight women who call themselves ‘curvy’. Curvy women do exist, but no one takes it seriously, because these huge women don’t seem to understand that curvy means hourglass figure, not ‘sloppily-folded-up-comforter’. If your twelve chins are wagging in the wind while you’re bobbing your head from side to side, shouting ‘I is curvy the way god made me.”…sorry, you’re fat, not curvy.

    Yep. I’m complaining about Symantics of all things. XD

  3. I’m 6’2 350lbs and have a waiste size of 48-50 inches and a shirt size of 3xlt to a 4x. It would be nice to see models my size or bigger. Rochester clothing, Casual Male XL and all the other big men’s store and magazine’s do not show men bigger than maybe an XL size. This just pisses me off. The other thing that drive’s me crazy is that there is little to no choice out there for big men’s sexy underwear. White, black, grey in briefs or boxers. I want color and designs, and variety when it comes to big mens brief or swimsuits.

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