Young and Broke

Women Tricking Men Into Wearing Tight Clothes

One theme remains consistent, Pinup Girl Clothing is not just a clothing company but a community and lifestyle that resonates with women everywhere. Revolutionizing the fashion industry since its inception in 1997, PUG (as it's affectionately referred to by fans) began as an online clothier making custom garments for all shapes and sizes and continues to proudly produces their collections in sizes XS-4X. Pioneering the body-positive movement, they were the first to routinely feature models of all sizes and ethnicities on their site, often using customers as the face of their company. Laura Byrnes, founder and CEO, says, "My goal is to show women that you create your own beauty standard. Your beauty standard is you at your best." Byrnes is happy other companies are finally following her lead, carrying a wider range of sizes and featuring plus size models regularly, something she's been doing since she started 15 years ago. @xoxoaliie the winning contestant writes, "Daydreaming if I would ever feel normal again, let alone feel attractive.

Says a designer: "Now you get online, you see blogs, all sorts of people in pictures, and it is a more tailored and a more European look," he said. "When guys show it to their wives, their wives really think it is more flattering." But what does a man picked at random by the reporter to represent The Average Man have to say ? "[My wife] would say, 'My God, you can fit four of you in this shirt,'" he said. "'It's not 1996 anymore!' Once she level-set me, I developed my own interest in claiming how I present myself." There you have it: dudes were perfectly okay wearing whatever they had on the rack at JC Penney, and all of a sudden Mr.