Lauredhel writes on the enjoyable Hoyden Around Town a post comparing the sexualisation of Olympic sports uniforms between the genders. I am not convinced that this is a feminist issue, if anything the male Olympic uniforms are under-sexualised and almost puritanical in their hiding of what are fantastic physiques.

Men's fashion quite literally sucks. Men's fashion is dumpy, frumpy, curtain like in its use of fabric and to be honest punishes those who want to show off their glowing physiques and sexuality. The Olympic fashions display this disparity between the gender's in their socially acceptable ability to express their physiques and sexuality to their contentment.

One of the few positives of recent years in fashion has been the male 'allowance' to ride their pants low and show curve of the stomach to the pelvis. We can probably thank Brad Pitt for that one, though I don't doubt the Hollywood stars do a cycle of steroids before a film where they show off their bodies; however for folks such as myself in their late 30s who spend five to seven days a week in the gym it is a positive.

I am not dumping on those that aren't in shape. I have not always been a fit and trim figure, in the latter years of my marriage my body got away from me and that was a mix of many things of which stress and what was a failing marriage impacted me negatively (when in reality I should have gone the other way and worked harder to make myself more physically attractive) but in my twenties I was a pretty well muscled and trim figure.

I am a tall, skinny and lanky guy, so even when I am in good trim I remain pretty skinny which should be perfect for male fashion; except the only shorts I can buy these days - even small sizes - touch my knees. IMO shorts should never be more than half-way down beyond the thighs.

It is the same with tops, the singlets and t-shirts that pass as fashionable in the sports store are more like curtains or bed-sheets than shirts. They end up draping me down to the knees as well. As a result I end up buying cotton shirts from designbyhumans.com which shrink down to a more pleasant size and fit.

The place where I cannot fathom men's fashion is the gym. Men wear these clothes that are little more than velvet drapes more suitable for the living room than the gym, yet women get to wear sports bras and short shorts. I do not understand why I don't get to go bare chested. The United States has determined my nipples are no where near as offensive as Janet Jackson's metal pierced nipple; yet the gym allows sports bras but not bare male chests.

I am somewhat amenable to the sweat issue, but even so, women can wipe off their sweat with sports bras that expose most of the back, so why can't men?

It is the same in the pool. Most me - and by that I mean 99% - wear big baggy shorts in the pool. They may as well swim with a parachute for all the drag it produces. I can count on one hand those that wear speedos, of which I am one. Yet a woman wearing a bikini or a two piece in the pool would not be blinked at, nor would her sexuality be questioned as men in speedos often face.

I don't think women being over sexualised is the issue. Women are given greater scope to express their sexuality, physique and liberty of fashion than men are. Men's fashion is limited and at the moment is puritanically frumpy, conservative, boring and quite crap.

The male physique needs to be brought back into focus as an instrument of sexuality. Starting with the Olympics where the physiques are exceptional is a good start. Time to hike the shorts up and make the singlets tight again.

My wife bought Glamour the other day which has a few pages up the back devoted to plus sized women. Plus sized only because the fashion magazines usually have very skinny women on their pages. Despite this headline; "Glamour honors plus-size models in its November issue " it was only a couple of pages at the rear of the magazine and the pages after were straight into the skinny 0 sized models again. More a token than an honoring.

There is no doubt some models sell dresses very well. When we were looking at the malls and online for a cute dress for my wife we noticed that this model sold the dresses better in the images than the others that shop bop used. So I don't doubt there is a reason a certain type of body, both female and male, is used to model clothes and fashion paraphenalia.

Curiously, Glamour is spelt the Australian way with the extra 'u' and not the American way. Presumably it was an anglic import or the 'u' was added to exotic it up.

My aussiebum stuff arrived from Australia. Probably far too immodest for the United States, however, the Mayan Riviera is not too far away where Australian and European standards of non-prudishness apply rather than American modesty of shorts to the ankles and t-shirts that are cut like lounge room drapery.

This is what my wife calls 'married jeans'. Defined by being high waisted, with a tapered leg, kind of baggy fit and the light coloured stonewash denim. They were the kind of jeans that were popular in the 1990s.

I was guilty of wearing them when I met her. Apparently the one thing she wanted to change about me was 'the jeans'. We went jean shopping soon after we started going out and my married jeans were consigned to the trash can.

My wife made the joke the other day that half of the people in the gym will be wearing a bright blue colored top as that is the only color you can get from nike, addidas and under armor other than black. She is right; the fitness tops have an exceptionally poor choice of colors; black, grey, white or powder blue.

The photo above is of a nike running singlet i wear to the gym. It is the only color other than black or white I can get in that singlet style. So by default it is the only color I wear to the gym. I don't understand why there is a such a limited palette of fitness top colors. Maybe it is because most people in the US wear crappy old t-shirts and raged shorts to the gym?

I wish there was a better choice of tops and shorts colors from nike, addidas and so forth. I wear gym clothes a lot and it is black, black and more black for the most part.

A new tshirt arriving from design by humans. I get all my tshirts from there now. The tshirts are high quality and the designs are unique - especially in relation to the mass produced designs you see at the local malls. My standard work clothes are now a tight design by humans t-shirt, boot cut designer jeans and cowboy boots. Quite the unqiue fashion mish-mash.