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i have such an issue with my weight. i don't know whether it's something more, or just a phase.
i am pretty much always worried or thinking that i've put weight on, or exercising or trying not to eat fatty food that i know won't do anything but eases my conscience. how ridiculous is that?
"and it gets to the point where i'm looking at their thighs, not their faces"
*on a lighter note, edited this in lightroom, and i'm liking the lighter more natural lighting feel to this one.
The blue film has this really weird grainy texture I'm not sure I like. Anyway, was a fun shot to do.
Thanks for the sweet testimonilal, miss wait in line
This subject is wearing a half shirt, an 80's garment for males. Half shirts are T-shirts with the lower portion cut off, resulting in the exposure of some of the male’s abdomen. It is a variety of shirt that is cut off from the bottom of the chest.
Though several cultures around the world have featured midriff-baring tops for centuries, the style became a temporary men's fad in the United States in the 1980s. Originally based on American football jerseys which were cropped above the navel to make them cooler in hot weather, it became popular to cut T-shirts above the midriff for daily wear. The concept was based on athletic and aerodynamics logic: in many athletic activities, including running, basketball, football, etc., there exists a need for both speed and temperature control. To use the example of a jogger, in an instance in which being shirtless may not be appropriate, the wearing of a half shirt allows the athlete to expose more surface skin area (aiding cooling and aerodynamics) while fulfilling the need to wear a top-concealing garment. This was the philosophy behind the extension of the wearing of half shirts on the football field to other athletic arenas. One early proponent of the design of commercially-available half shirts for this purpose was New Balance, who manufactured belly tops for male and female athletes in the 1980s.
Several major apparel companies released lines of ready-made half shirts in the 1980s, including Nike, Inc., Adidas and others. As an even further extension of the fashion, it became common to see half shirts casually worn at school and in other semi-formal public places. Many of these shirts were quite short, between 15-17 inches in length, causing a large area of a man's belly and bellybutton to be exposed. Some schools and similar public institutions prohibited the wearing of half shirts outside of physical education classes, as some areas of the United States consider baring of the midriff and navel to be immodest. It became a semi-common convention for school rules to prohibit revealing the navel, or even the bare midriff, as a means of regulating the half shirt.
Half shirts became scarce in the United States by the end of the 1980s.
--From Wikipedia (edited)
Vicky believes the reason we originally took this picture was because the underwear was glowing in the blacklights. Of course that doesn't show in the photo.