A fashion magazine for STRAIGHT men!?????

This thread is not written with the intention to offend any human

Every magazine I read, at least in the USA is targeted towards "fabulous" men. I have learned that "fabulous" is the AAAC euphemism for men who are not strictly heterosexual. And I will admitt that most fashion fabulous men are dressed fabuously and with that being said, what about the rest of us heteros who buy clothes?

I bet there is a market for hetero fashion, where the men's clothing models aren't pre-pubescent 22 year olds looking like they want you to be their sugar daddy.

I don't want a magazine filled with surgically augmented air brushed bimbos, gadgets and gizmos, sports cars I can't afford, and pure crap advice on how to pick up women that want nothing more than my social security number.

It be nice to see real hetero men of all shapes and sizes in different suit combos casual and buziness fashions.

maybe call the magazine:
"Hetero." Men's fashion for Men.
Is it politically correct for hetero men to have their own magazine? I don't care! I don't even care if the models are gay, just don't pose and look at me like youre affection is available for a price. Even better, airbrush the faces off and replace them with a drawn faces or heck a smiley faces for that matter.

Let the magazine be about the fashion, not the model! Just think how much cheaper it would be to find models who don't have to have "pretty faces" I think this would also allow the men to picture themselves in the clothes and think about how they would look in that suit rather than how good that model dude looks in it.
I would divide the magazine into several sections: Each section would have its own sub-section for matching shirts, ties, shoes, etc.
sections: Black-Tie, Exec Business, Casual Business, Dress Casual, Athletic Wear, Underwear, and of course some small articles about men's health, grooming tips, gadgets, and stories submitted by readers.
I would charge more for the magazine, so it could contain less advertising and more info.
There's so much that could be done. I'm completely secure in my heteroness, but I'd like to open up a men's fashion magazine and not feel like I'm looking at well dressed men modeling softcore gay Appreciation. I don't care who writes or edits the magazine I just want the fashion and the models targeted towards hetero men.

Remember, I did not write this to offend anyone, only to ask If I was the only man who felt this way. I believe I placed the thread in the proper area. Please forgive me if I have not and please move my thread to a more proper place.

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Capt Ron
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Pensacola, Floirida, USA

I find your post intriguing, and agree that there is clearly a gaping hole in the fashion mag world for a strictly heterosexual male audience. A step in the right direction, however, is to be found online: I recommend you check out a cool site called "meatspin". Dunno the url, but you can google it.






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Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

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I find your post intriguing, and agree that there is clearly a gaping hole in the fashion mag world for a strictly heterosexual male audience. A step in the right direction, however, is to be found online: I recommend you check out a cool site called "meatspin". Dunno the url, but you can google it. I am

This video is almost as painful, though I may have to start wearing an eye patch. If you want to see a site about heterosexual Man Bags try googling "bagslap".

Your request is not uncommon - and it seems the "popular" mags are becoming more and more designed for "boys" and not men.

Sadly, some of the last century's great magazines have gone astray in this direction too, for example Esquire was once a great template for sartorial taste and had no predilection for a l'effete or fanciful delineation. In those days of course, the tastes of apparel were prescribed by the likes of Clarke Gable, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant [and the Duke of Windsor] and the very rich of the Palm Beach set when it was not the haunt of the nouveau riche.

Perhaps a couple of magazines today may fill the void, they appeal to a more mature and affluent crowd, and not so surprisingly - reflect many of the tastes and/or aspirations of the members of this site.

Either the Robb Report [sometimes outrageous in it's contents of rarefied exclusivity for the uber-rich] or the relatively new "Mens Vogue" [yes - it's well executed] may be up to your standard.

Originally Posted by Capt Ron

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I don't want a magazine filled with surgically augmented air brushed bimbos, gadgets and gizmos, sports cars I can't afford, and pure crap advice on how to pick up women that want nothing more than my social security number.



I thought you wanted a magazine for Straight men?

with all due respect i do not think you want a magazine for a straight man, you want... hmm difficult to avoid being rude here, say - a magazine for a cerebrally underdeveloped man.
you can not surely say, that if you open a contemporary magazine say, the esquire(lets leave this discussion to another time) or the likes, that most (!) of the clothes and styling is directed for the homosexual minority among us. if you do think so, then you need to start your sartorial education at the very beginning, im afraid.

a vital piece of advice i can give you (son?), is do not be frightened, what the REAL men at aaac forum might think, because worry not, there is no special mag they get their 'gear' from.
And if you are not able to overcome that obstacle, try the Brooks Brothers catalogue, im sure you will be satisfied.

sincerely yours

ps. as much as one would enjoy slipping in the metaphoric blade, as someone on another forum said, i feel compelled to point you in some direction. see the sartorialist. im sure for you, it will serve the purpose of a 'fashion magazine' as good as any printed one would

I doubt such fashion magazine ("Hetero") would come to life any time soon.
Most men's magazines serve one purpose: to make it more socially acceptable for hetero men to use cosmetic products and follow fashion trends.
****-sexualization of fashion tastes is the shortest way to sell more crap to wider audience.
Hetero men are far behind women and gays at buying new clothes every season, updating their wardrobe in order to follow newest fashions and adopting make-up and man-bags.

^ True dat. It's a vast **** conspiracy I tells ya. I, for one, never browse through fashion magazines at Barnes & Noble after someone else has handled it; it's so easy to catch teh **** and you never know who is infected.

Would scuba gear be part of this magazine Capt. Ron? Maybe exercises so we can have "guns", all nice and hot waxed, like the ones you show off on your website? Oh wait...HETRO men...okay, scratch last

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

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I doubt such fashion magazine ("Hetero") would come to life any time soon.
Most men's magazines serve one purpose: to make it more socially acceptable for hetero men to use cosmetic products and follow fashion trends.
****-sexualization of fashion tastes is the shortest way to sell more crap to wider audience.
Hetero men are far behind women and gays at buying new clothes every season, updating their wardrobe in order to follow newest fashions and adopting make-up and man-bags.

This guy is bat-**** crazy, but sometimes he just nails one... Cheers to you, dkzzzz

Maybe this is the mag for you. This guy looks pretty manly and hetero.

Do I get the sense, Captain, that you got disenchanted with AAAC real quick? I used to post there with great regularity, but I was unaware of their use of the term "fabulous" to denote gentlemen of the "brotherly" persuasion. However, I do get where you are coming from: A lot of men's fashion magazines, especially those from overseas, do strike me as sort of creepy in that regard.

In any event, I might commend to you the new "Classic Style" magazine. While in the past it has shown certain retro-costumey tendencies, they seem to be moving in the right direction, and a goodly percentage of the writers are contributors to these fora. "Menswear," which comes out about two or three times a year, is pretty good as well as far as being strictly a clothing/style magazine without being too skewed toward "lifestyles"--alternative or otherwise.

If fashion is what you want I'd say DNR is the way to go for men's stuff. If it's style/culture etc. I guess the one with the least homoerotic images (ie. D&G adverts) would be Men's Vogue. Although I don't have the recent issues of Men's Vogue so they might have them as well.

harry has been around for a few years and is a very magazine, it covers a lot of things OP has said, but I don't think you can get it anywhere else other than Canada.



http://www.harrymagazine.ca

FWIW, Esquire was considered rather effete even in the heyday you yearn for, and GQ was much more so.