The "thigh gap" trend

[Gravekeeper]

I have never found that gap attractive. Even as a kid, I saw skinny women with this gap between their legs and I thought it made them look sickly.

It does look really unnatural now that I bother to look up what the big deal is suppose to be. Its sort of weird. Like you can tell when a woman has an unnatural thigh gap vs one who has a thigh gap just due to her height/hip width. The former looks almost kind of freaky. Like my brain is telling me something is wrong but can't quite place it. Until I realize they have wobbly twigs for legs.

Olympic athletes do not have thigh gaps. Why does anyone else think they NEED one? >.>

[Panacea]

No one needs one. It is a completely artificial way of looking at the human body.

It's unhealthy. People should be thinking in terms of percentage of body fat, not weight, BMI or this unscientific "gap" nonsense.

Even then, lifestyle also needs to be considered. A person with low body fat who is living a risky lifestyle (say, by taking anabolic steroids to build muscle mass) is at greater risk of cardiovascular disease than someone who's just a few pounds heaver than they "should" be, but who is otherwise healthy and eats healthy and is active.

[Nyoibo]

Now, to clarify it, there are 3 different Adductor muscles in your thigh. The Adductor Brevis, the Adductor Longus, and the Adductor Magnus.

4, You left out Gracilis.

[Bloodsoul]

Looking back at my old (albeit, terrible) artwork, I noticed that the only women who came close to having any sort of "gap" was a 5'2" angel and a 5' amazon girl, both with (relatively) petite figures.

Even my most "modelesque" character, 5'8" and fairly slim, lacks the gap. =Þ And I'm okay with that; makes 'em seem "juicier" in my eyes.

[BlaqueKatt]

I see it on these thin women and my heart breaks a little because I don't look like that. I can deal with my muffin top, I love the gigantic boobs I have from being a little heavier, and the booty I've accumulated is pretty "licious", but I want that gap.

It's super unrealistic and ridiculous, but I feel like a bit of a failure every time I realize I do not have it.

My personal trainer at 14% body fat doesn't have a thigh gap. it's pelvic structure. unless you malnourished yourself to the point of unhealthy, or have your hips broken and reset for simple cosmetic purposes.....

If I could find a full body photo of myself before I was admitted for treatment of anorexia, I'd post it. I was 85 pounds, at 5'4", did not have a thigh gap. You know who else doesn't have one when standing with her feet together?
Kate Moss the person who started the "size zero trend."

but don't take my word for it-how about a professor of anatomy (bottom of article)

“Only the malnourished or those with a slightly splayed pelvis will have a visible gap between their upper thighs.”

[Shalom]

I go through pants pretty regularly because I wear out the inner thighs from walking all day..

So do I, especially if I'm wearing wool (all my Sabbath suits are wool of some type). It typically takes no more than three wearings before I see the cloth starting to give way. Yup, all my family got the thunder thighs. (I'm male, incidentally. Shalom is a man's name, the existence of Ms Shalom Harlow notwithstanding.)

So do what I do, and get your trousers lined. My tailor uses some sort of slippery smooth cloth, probably some synthetic like polyester or dacron. He puts it in from just above the knee to halfway up the buttocks.

You'll wear out the lining every so often, sure, but that's replaceable. I just sent one of my suit pants in this week to have the lining redone, because when I took it off the other night, I found two half-circles of lining were just missing, right from the crotch. If I hadn't caught that, I'd have to say goodbye to a halfway decent suit pretty soon.

(Of course that's why I always get cuffs when I have the legs finished. That's a few inches of extra cloth that can be salvaged for patches if I do wear through the cloth.)

[fireheart17]

It's probably worth noting that in the fashion industry, they're aiming for a size 0, which means they're looking for ambulatory coat hangers, more or less. In that world, healthy is considered plus size.

Not that I'm using it as meaning the WHOLE industry, America's Next Top Model contestants are generally a Size 2-4 and will stay that way post-contest. Only 2 of the winners were Size 0 and 1 was a Size 6. Ironically the Size 0 winners have been criticised for resembling anorexic models and in one ep of ANTM, they actually kicked out one contestant who was showing signs of an eating disorder and did not make it into the industry after that. (In fact, during a photo shoot and during panel, the contestant in question had trouble getting a decent photo that WASN'T showing off her skeletal frame (they were in bikinis) and when her thin-ness was pointed out, she simply said that she needed to be THINNER).

[Gravekeeper]

I have a thigh gap. Does that make me pretty? ( I do so want to be pretty )

[crashhelmet]

4, You left out Gracilis.

You're right. I also realize I left out the Pectineus too. I was thinking of the three named Adductor, not the 5 total that actually perform adduction.

[crashhelmet]

My personal trainer at 14% body fat doesn't have a thigh gap. it's pelvic structure. unless you malnourished yourself to the point of unhealthy, or have your hips broken and reset for simple cosmetic purposes.....

If I could find a full body photo of myself before I was admitted for treatment of anorexia, I'd post it. I was 85 pounds, at 5'4", did not have a thigh gap. You know who else doesn't have one when standing with her feet together?
Kate Moss the person who started the "size zero trend."

but don't take my word for it-how about a professor of anatomy (bottom of article)

Not to nitpick, but your choice of photos of Kate Moss doesn't show her thighs in one pic and she clearly has her legs crossed in the second.

[siead_lietrathua]

kate moss does have a thigh gap. just google her in a swimsuit.
http://stardietsecrets.com/wp-conten...oss-bikini.jpg

i do agree this is a freaking stupid trend. like, really freaking stupid. of all the arbitrary things.
geez, next it will be "toe gap" or something.

[s_stabeler]

um, she's walking forwards in that picture. There is no actual thigh gap.

[Andara Bledin]

kate moss does have a thigh gap. just google her in a swimsuit.
http://stardietsecrets.com/wp-conten...oss-bikini.jpg

Thigh gap needs the feet to be together, and her's are most decidedly not in that pic. In fact, it's very difficult to impossible to find any image of Moss with her feet together.

A blog article about the issue with an excellent example photo

An interesting article at the Daily Mail

[Gravekeeper]

um, she's walking forwards in that picture. There is no actual thigh gap.

She does have a thigh gap. There are a bajillion other pictures.

I don't know how this became a point of contention of all things. >.>

[Gravekeeper]

Thigh gap needs the feet to be together, and her's are most decidedly not in that pic. In fact, it's very difficult to impossible to find any image of Moss with her feet together.

Its pretty easy to see that her legs are sticks. She definitely has a gap.

That pic only took 5 seconds to find. >.>