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Long and Leggy!

Aug 13, 2006 Author: FMS | Filed under: Models, Site Stuff

C’mon, my people!

I’m hoping to see a community of enthusiasts and appreciators spring up around this site – I know you’re coming, so how about that feedback?

Just register yourself in the site under any name you want to start commenting. Trust me – I’ll make every effort to respond to your feedback and try to create content that you all like.

And just for your information – the model from the previous post – “Short and Sweet” – has agreed to come back for a future shoot to be decided shortly; the model from this picture below – “Long and Leggy” – is now in the hopper after having been photographed by me. I’m gonna “pop the question” about being a regular model here soon. Here’s a preview below. More after I get feedback from her.

Long Leggy

Judging from the extreme shapeliness of her entire package – you really, really can’t imagine how shapely, guys – I really hope she agrees to come on board.

Monthly Roundup

Aug 13, 2006 Author: FMS | Filed under: Site Stuff

We’ve been online for the better half of nearly a month, enough time to have built up some interesting stats. So I was playing around with the site stats report on my site when I came across the top 20 search engine terms that bring up this site:

  1. radish legs
  2. high heels
  3. lick feet man
  4. korean foot binding
  5. young ladies
  6. feetmanseoul.com
  7. gam leg bone toe popping
  8. korean calves legs
  9. seoul feet
  10. foot binding korea
  11. female foot fetish
  12. sexiest shaped male feet
  13. red mango seoul korea
  14. toe parting male feet
  15. feetmanseoul
  16. online shopping: korean hanboks
  17. female feet
  18. female cute feet
  19. http://www.feetmanseoul.com/
  20. ghetto feet

Wow – tells you what people out there are looking for. This eclectic collection of terms also tells you that this site is very young. Out of the the few thousand hits we’ve gotten so far (mostly from the two big links in from major blogs and being indexed on blog search engines), each of those search strings was responsible for only a few hits each.

But I thought you’d find them funny. I did!

Short and Sweet!

Aug 11, 2006 Author: FMS | Filed under: Models, Street Runway

There are a lot of ideas floating around my head right now about how to make this site right. Lately, I’ve been getting up the gumption to talk to some cute girls as potential models for the site. So far, we have a few candidates, but the one I met last night seems the most promising.

Hands Present SmWe were sitting in the same restaurant when several things caught my eye; there was the pair of strikingly skinny legs, her healthy tanned skin, the bright contrast of her nails, the see-through blouse and yellow brassiere, her sassy walk, and her high, hyper-feminine voice. She was like a piece of overly-sweet candy, an assault on the senses, an indulgence that makes you remember that you’re on a diet. Standing Present Sm2When I approached her after they walked out of the restaurant, she was surprisingly compliant after I explained that I was looking for some “foot and hand models” and was wondering if she might be interested in having an easy part-time job that involved a little modeling. Most girls fake like they’re not interested, but the vanity factor is pretty strong. She was posing and presenting for the camera, sometime awkwardly, but pretty eagerly.

When I got her to sit down and take off her shoes, it entered a whole new level. She said she has size 210 feet, which makes her too small even for Korea. I think this means she’s like a size 4 and 1/2 or 5 or something.

Bare Sm-1

She’s young, eager, and very happy to pose. Think we should make a model out of her? Anonymous voyeurs coming and going to this site – start leaving some comments and feedback already. I know you’re out there, I know many of you have put this site’s RSS into your blog readers and browsers. let’s start getting some feedback!

Here’s one for the road. Man, that’s one hot girl, ready to pose!

Skirt Pigeon Sm-1

Devil in the Details

Aug 10, 2006 Author: FMS | Filed under: Glamorous, Street Runway

Yes, as they say, “the Devil is in the details.”

I noticed this pair of pretty young college students strolling down the road in Hyehwa and decided to snap a few. Now, when you see a woman in a short skirt, you don’t always catch the details that make you want to look. Sometimes, a woman in a short skirt is just…a woman in a short skirt. Nothing special.

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But you really haveta look. Girls who make you turn your head often have the nice shape and what length of leg to make your imagination start going, but honestly, many Korean girls aren’t really “shapely” in the sense of other women in the world. Think the country of Brazil, the boodie of Beyoncé, “crunk in the trunk.” Korean women generally have fairly unremarkable legs.

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So why does it seem like girls are shaking and showing it in a way that never tends to cross my mind in the States? I see a nice view or two walking down the street in the US, but in Korea, there’s always something to look at. Detail LeftIt’s in the details, man, and the details are what separates a UCSD SoCal girl wearing short shorts and thong beach sandals for coolness and comfort from a K-girl in Apkujung wearing strappy 3-inch heels and a miniskirt of the same length. Combine that with the other sexy accessorizing that Korean girls do, and you suddenly got a sexy package. Yes, Korean girls are generally pretty plain and I’ve heard it said that “Korean girls look better with their clothes on” – but that’s the whole point, isn’t it? Because Korean girls don’t come in all the same shapes and sizes that multiculti American girls do, and generally range from a size 0 to 4 or so, generally are between a narrower height range, and also generally wear a 6 or 7, you get a common, clearer palette to work with. Detail RightYes, standing in the buff, many Korean girls are pretty unremarkable (although I didn’t say undesirable!); but you add in makeup, heels, short skirt, straight “Magic” movie star perm, sparkly handbag, and a slightly skanky top with rhinestones and the cool sunglasses – as everyday wear for many young girls, not “clubwear” that many American girls only change into specifically to go on a night out – you got something to look at, something that catches the eye. And yep – the high-heeled foot is one of those things. On this particular girl, if you think about it, it’s her shoe that brings her into the zone of something sexy worth looking at; were she wearing a pair of flip-flop thong sandals, I wouldn’t have been taking these pictures. You can see in the two close detail shots to the right and left – merely close blowups of parts of the picture above – that her clean, cute feet and well-chose white shoes combine to accentuate what is a pretty unspectacular leg, besides the obvious fact that she has good skin.

White Girl

Aug 7, 2006 Author: FMS | Filed under: Ghetto Fab, Street Runway

White Lady EntireThere are a lot of aspects to White Girl worth talking about. They’re just things I observe, and are signs that my standards of female beauty have become somewhat Koreanized. Otherwise, why would I be so weirdly attracted to a woman who, in my previous life before Korea, I would have dismissed as pale and kinda unhealthy looking? It’s because in Korea, being pale and generally unhealthy looking is actually a certain aesthetic. It’s the combination of the fact that most Korean women have never regularly exercised (soccer, field hockey, swimming, basketball, softball, etc.), White Lady Walking Backenabling the phenomenon known as “skinny fat”, also known by the more medical term “thin obesity”, in which a given very, very skinny woman is actually medically obese (was that 25% of their weight being body fat?). In Seoul, more than any place else I have been in the world, many skinny women walk down the street with the fat on their bones flib-flabbing from side to side. Eww, right? Add to that the extremely pale skin of some of these women (preserved by the constant use of parasols), and the idea that if they do any exercise at all, they’ll get huge Arnold Schwarzenegger legs and Sarah Connor arms – you get that delicate, pale, dependent look of doe-eyed femininity. And I hate to admit it, but – I kinda like it sometimes.

I know it sounds and can even look gross, but I can’t do anything other than admit it. I know many of you will not want to blow up the pic below, but this girl is sooo ghetto fabulous – pale, not-so-great skin, yellow soles, and brown spots on exposed joints – man, I just had to snap a picture or two as she strutted by with her Princess Diana attitude. These are the princesses who would never date a foriegner, and are best found with thug-ajussi dudes who hang in the Jongno or Yungdeungpo. These are the Korean round-the-way girls, and they are their own kind of lovely.

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우리 멀테매거진은 대부분의 한국 패션잡지하고 달라요. 여러 사람들을 모여서 '리얼 패션'을 직접 찍고 촬영하고 녹음도 하고. 그리고 UCC과 podcast하고 멋진 멀티미디어 컨텐츠와 솔직한 글로 색다른 online magazine을 제공해요. 멀티미디어 + 매거진 = "멀티매거진"이죠. 지금 발전중이라 이쁘게 봐주시고 우리 컴뮤니티에 가입을 좀 하시죠? 우리 FMS의 사이트와 함께 서울의 멋진 길거리와 맛집에서 만나보자!


What is FASHION?

"패션은 옷과 함께 하는 것만은 아니에요...하늘에도, 길에도 패션은 있고, 패션은 우리의 생각과 삶의 방식, 주변에서 일어나는 일들과도 함께해야만 해요."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

--- Coco Chanel (1883–1971)



재밌는 대화 / comments

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    • Brian: Well, I dunno, maybe I’m in the minority but I *hate* boots/shoes like that. Regardless of the nationality, but as I said on the Korea Sparkle post about this they do kind of make Korean legs look more squat....
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    • Godzilla: Stupid a$$hole$ that think like that. And poor girls who abide by these “rules”.
    • songy: ouch.. Hear hear. I did enjoy your ranting. That article is really crazy for sure - only found in Korea would you say? I remember back in uni about 50% of girls in my class had plastic surgery done on their faces.....
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What is STYLE?

"패션은 희미해지지만 스타일은 영원하다."

"Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

--- Yves Saint Laurent (b. 1936)






What is SEXY?

"있잖아..다리가 아름다운건 아니야...단지 그걸 어떻게 해야 하는지를 아는거야."

"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."

--- Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)











What is TALENT?

"내가 연기할 수 없을 때, 난 연기를 해야 했고, 노래할 수 없을 때, 난 '익살스런 얼굴'을 노래해야 했다. 또, 난 Fred Astaire와 함께 춤을 춰야 했었는데, 그때는 춤을 출 수 있는 상황이 아니었다. 그러니까 내가 준비되지 않았을 때 난 이 모든것을 해야 했던 것이다. 그때 난 정말 미친듯이 이 난국을 타개하기 위해 노력했다."

"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.”

---Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)





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