I was already wearing women’s clothes when I started this. Not experimenting — wearing them. Learning what worked, building knowledge about fit and fabric, figuring out how to dress a body that most women’s fashion isn’t designed for.
The problem wasn’t the clothes. It was the shape. A male bodybuilder’s frame creates specific, practical problems with women’s clothing: suspender belts slide down over straight hips, dresses sit wrong across a broad chest, skirts won’t rest where they should on a waist that’s the same width as everything else. The more seriously I trained, the worse the fit became.
So I’m changing the shape. I’ve redirected my training — thirty-five years of serious lifting — toward an hourglass figure. Narrower waist, wider hips, fuller thighs, a developed chest. A physique that works with the clothes I want to wear, without giving up the muscularity.
The Hourglass Project is the record of that: what’s been learned, what’s being built, and what it looks like when someone solves a fit problem by remaking their body. Training decisions, measurements, what I’m wearing and where, what fits now that didn’t before.
I’m documenting it because five years ago there was almost nothing to read. If you’re a man with a built frame trying to make women’s clothing work — or you’re curious about what deliberate physique shaping actually looks like in practice — this is for you.
