Male mannequins go on a diet The waifishly thin "Homme Nouveau" reminds us that skewed body expectations affect men, too ...

Emaciated mannequins: a study of mannequin body size in high street fashion stores. Journal of Eating Disorders , 2017; 5 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s40337-017-0142-6 Cite This Page : ...

Fashion mannequins communicate 'dangerously thin' body ideals. University of Liverpool. Journal Journal of Eating Disorders DOI 10.1186/s40337-017-0142-6 ...

The study found that only 8 percent of male mannequins represented an underweight body size. But the fashion industry may discriminate against men in other ways, it pointed out.

Researchers also looked into male mannequins and found the average male mannequin body to be significantly larger than the average female mannequin body size and only eight per cent of the male ...

They found that the average mannequin coded as female represented a “very” underweight body type, but mannequins coded as male appeared to represent an underweight body type only 8% of the time.

The authors write: “The average female mannequin body size was representative of a very underweight woman and 100% of female mannequins represented an underweight body size. “The average male ...