Every gayling loved the pictures, but have you or anyone you know every bought anything?
Buying from International Male
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 25, 2021 1:18 PM |
Yes, in 1989, I bought an electric green tank top and a pair of cuffed denim shorts that had patchwork stripes going down each side.
In 1994, I bought the RAVE GENERATION CD sets 1 & 2.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 24, 2021 9:35 PM |
I dated a guy when I first came out who ordered from there. For the most part, I was okay with what he would wear, but when we went to a party and he wore this ensemble of white, puffy pirate shirt with black velvet vest and pants, that was just too much for me.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 24, 2021 10:11 PM |
What tacky faggot would admit to buying that crap?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 24, 2021 10:15 PM |
Someone who's not afraid to be who they are, tacky or not?
We're all on the same message board, get off your virtual high horse, R3.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 24, 2021 10:20 PM |
I am female - I used to do a lot of local theatre. I fell hard for the guy I was partnered with in a lot of shows. He would always act very conservative and carry a brief case - but he ALWAYS carried a copy of the International Male Catalogue. He also doused himself in Grey Flannel. I will NEVER forget a cast pool party for “Brigadoon” - picked directly out of the International Male catalogue - he came strutting outside in eeny weenie electric blue speedos - they had triangle cutouts on the sides and were practically like wearing dental floss - it was SCANDALOUS!!! He looked pretty fantastic! He has been happily married to a man for 30 years. Good Times.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 24, 2021 10:24 PM |
I bought one of the Pirate Shirts; one that buttoned, not one that tied across the chest.
I got compliments on it. People thought it was "cool." Also compliments on the balls I had to wear it outside the house.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 24, 2021 10:26 PM |
Dear God, no.
We used to call that shit 'butt floss'.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 24, 2021 10:32 PM |
I used to buy their Undergear pouch briefs. Very comfortable.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 24, 2021 10:32 PM |
I still have a few things from the catalog in my wardrobe. Anyone over 55 on here wore something from it because... 1980s
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 24, 2021 10:34 PM |
I figured only gay men bought that stuff
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 25, 2021 4:04 AM |
I was appalled by any kind of bad taste when I was an aspirational teenager. Then I got my ivy degrees and a lot of career and sexual success and was a looker, and I developed the HOTS for every kind of trashy but hot gay man and their vulgar tacky fetishy cheap apparel. I loved it all, for year. Not on ME, of course. I love tacky German and Austrian gays with their ridiculous fetish gear, and I loved go go boys and shop bottoms and bridge and tunnel queens and the Italia and Black and PR boys way out in Brooklyn. I thought it was all so hot and uninhibited - ON THEM. As a side bar, I loved the lux designer vulgarity too - remember how outrageous Versace was? But it on the right guy and it was hot as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 25, 2021 4:58 AM |
I bought a gorgeous white fake fox fur coat from them at least twenty-five years ago and it sat in my closet for over a decade until I finally gave it to my away.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 25, 2021 5:01 AM |
R5’s story: a tale as old as time.
I don’t know what mailing list my family was on during the late ‘80s, but I remember flipping through the International Male catalog when it was delivered. We got the Victoria’s Secret catalog too. My step-father always made a big production when that one arrived.
I thought IM clothes gave off a cheesy, nouveau riche, eurotrash vibe. Those creepy clothes might’ve worked in Saint-Tropez or the Greek isles, but in San Dimas, you’d be mocked, and rightly so.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 25, 2021 9:02 AM |
I wanted very much to buys something from the International Male catalog just so I could say I got something from International Male.
Try a I might, I honestly could not find anything in that catalog that I would wear in public. And every time the new catalog came in the mail, I'd look again for something to buy but find nothing.
The pictures always looked great! But I just couldn't see myself wearing that stuff in real life.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 25, 2021 9:33 AM |
You had to have a stunning body to pull any of that stuff off
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 25, 2021 1:03 PM |
I’m sure I had pants, a shirt and some shorts from IM.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 25, 2021 1:18 PM |