Question for the Modellers here

[Mich the Tester]

I was wondering if there are any professional modellers here,

I modelled men's underwear for a Dutch department store in my early 20's, when my body was athletic and godly and free of scars and my head was adorned by a golden blonde hair. It was really quite difficult as it involved wearing polyester underwear, which really is very unpleasant, tensing up the stomach muscles to show a 'washboard' to the camera (just for info; those washboard stomachs you see young chaps sporting in glossies are about 40% make-up, 40% photoshop and 20% human), sprinting back behind a screen several times to change into another pair of lurid polyester undies as the photographer was paid by the half-hour, and then suffering the ridicule of everyone at the rugby club who'd visited the department store and seen a 3 metre high poster of me staring down down at them wearing only my undies.

Oh, and yes, the agencies do provide a rolled up sock for making the bulge more impressive.

It doesn't pay well. Gisele Bundchen might be paid several thousand per photo, never mind per shoot, but male models are usually students who´ll be lucky to get any more than minimum wage.

[TimberWolf]

Leather chaps, open shirt with hairy chest and a Ginger syrup is a bad look.

Hth

MF

Is 'syrup' Cockney rhyming from syrup of figs, a wig? So ginger syrup is a ginger wig?

Or this:

[EternalOptimist]

I modelled men's underwear for a Dutch department store in my early 20's, when my body was athletic and godly and free of scars and my head was adorned by a golden blonde hair. It was really quite difficult as it involved wearing polyester underwear, which really is very unpleasant, tensing up the stomach muscles to show a 'washboard' to the camera (just for info; those washboard stomachs you see young chaps sporting in glossies are about 40% make-up, 40% photoshop and 20% human), sprinting back behind a screen several times to change into another pair of lurid polyester undies as the photographer was paid by the half-hour, and then suffering the ridicule of everyone at the rugby club who'd visited the department store and seen a 3 metre high poster of me staring down down at them wearing only my undies.

Oh, and yes, the agencies do provide a rolled up sock for making the bulge more impressive.

It doesn't pay well. Gisele Bundchen might be paid several thousand per photo, never mind per shoot, but male models are usually students who´ll be lucky to get any more than minimum wage.

so you think economics then ?

mmmm, i tend to agree

[Mich the Tester]

so you think economics then ?

mmmm, i tend to agree

Yeah.



Mich the Tester, BSc, MSc, PhD Economics and Polyester Undies.