What does it say? There’s no reject all and I can’t be arsed unchecking then manually.
This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.
The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.
In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”
The anecdote in question:
Last evening over an early dinner in New York a dear old friend visiting from Australia gave me this postcard which he found lately in a museum bookshop in Germany. The caption reads Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910. The first phrase is difficult to translate with equal concision, but surely means [men made more] beautiful by stripes, and presumably therefore drips with irony.
I fucking knew it
thank you
The heads seem photoshopped on to the bodies. Or did the skin tone of all their faces just differ that wildly from their bodies’ back then?
I think they wore longer clothes with higher colors back then. They would have a sunt tan from being outside, but only on their head.
Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.
Just asked something about this, the left one looks like he has a shirt collar.
Considering historic mens clothing the latter isn’t implausible.
#2 is packing.
has to, as he has no beard.
So he can’t sing a shanty?
Cant sing shanty if you got no beard.
He also has both legs
It is unclear what vehicles he owns and operates, as well as how his wife feels about potentially derogatory words.
No tash = big member… That explains a lot…
So that’s why my wife’s member is so big!
They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.
Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion
I know those words, but I don’t think they’re being used in a manner to which I’m accustomed.
Steroids or nobody likes you
You know what? I’m gonna not take steroids even harder.
They can tell just by looking that I don’t take steroids right? Like I don’t have to actually talk to them?
Yeah you can generally tell, the neck and shoulders have more androgen receptors so they will typically have bulbous shoulders, oversized traps and a thick neck. Other giveaways are early balding, back acne, and rapid muscle gain. And huge mass monsters are pretty obvious. If you were really interested you could take a look at Jesse James West on YouTube. He’s about the peak muscularity someone can reasonably achieve without steroids outside of genetically gifted individuals. He interviews gym girls often and they rate him so low haha.
I’d rather have my 3% body fat “skinny arms” then synth arms.
How can you form coherent thoughts at 3%? I would only be able to think about food
It’s not one or the other. You can lift heavy things, not do steroids and not have skinny arms. You can also have skinny arms if you don’t want to lift heavy things and are perfectly content with them. But let’s not frame this as a binary choice because it isn’t.
I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
what in the fuck is that. I look better and I never workout. I work desk job 50+ hrs/week. I’m supposed to be mr universe :(
Do you look better than that, or do you look like you suck off a dude for discount tren?
I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.
Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.
If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.
Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying
They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.
I’m all for a low bar on male attractiveness - handsome is as handsome does. But, these fellas look barely this side of healthy
You may have spent too much time online.
We’re getting into the body positivity discourse of a century old photo of dudes dressed like Beetlejuice’s day at the beach, so it pretty much goes without saying that we could all do with a gasp of fresh air.
Let the Lemmings have their dreams and misinformation
The oldest dude there is 23 years old
Why does the guy on the left look like he’s wearing a collar made of skin?
They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
People used to do this weird thing called going outside. Believe it or not, they’d spend most of their waking hours doing this weird habit and they were also typically fully dressed too. It was considered scandalous to be caught outside not fully clothed. So the deadly laser that is our Sun would fry their uncovered face much faster than the skin beneath their clothes.
Why the leftmost one looks like has a shirt collar even though he is topless?
Tan line from his shirt collar. Modern sunscreen wasn’t invented until the 30s.
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
His apparent boner is making a statement of its own.
He’s gonna put someones eye out with that thing.
2 from the left. The grandfather of “Bigballs” from DOGE.
My wife says the guy on the right end because “he has the sexiest diaper”.
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
What’s wrong with them?
I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.
To me they look totally normal, average. Beauty standards changed a lot and continue so do since the dawn of time.
Checkout https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf :)
I remember discussing this in private school, I suggested its possible use was for portable masturbation on long trips lol.
Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.
It’s totally fine for me if you want to look like one of those Roman or greek statues but I don’t think the (above) average greek or todays indigenous people look(ed) much different from the guys in the post, eg Yanomami for reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/xR5KMPCo6XMwnQne6
Cmon that photo you linked makes my point exactly. The tribesmen clearly have better muscle mass. Just look at the man in the far right, that dude has fairly developed biceps and shoulders. Guy on the far left, I think I even see some vascularity.
I think you might be looking at the chest only, which is actually pretty hard to build without weightlifting so it makes sense that neither would look like what our idea of muscular is in the modern day. Even the first bodybuilders had “underdeveloped “ chests.
They don’t look like a modern social media influencer
It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.
Right, before power tools were common. I bet these guys were on average stronger than current average men.
You are asuming they do physical work and aren’t just white collar.
They probably did physical work in a white collar though.
Absolutely a possibility
I’ll take the looker on the far left. Mmmmhmm, break me off a piece of that.
