In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a new aesthetic for men’s bodies emerged. At the time, the concept that there was an ideal way for a man’s physique to look was new, or at least long-neglected. In the immediate past, strongmen had only been required to lift heavy things. Nobody cared whether or not their muscles were visible...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a new aesthetic for men’s bodies emerged. At the time, the concept that there was an ideal way for a man’s physique to look was new, or at least long-neglected. In the immediate past, strongmen had only been required to lift heavy things. Nobody cared whether or not their muscles were visible...