The more familiar fat — known as white fat, although it's actually yellowish — stores up calories and stubbornly accumulates around waistlines, thighs and bottoms.
For a while now, skinny and narrow has been de rigueur (thanks to Hedi Slimane, formerly of Christian Dior fame), but that has left men with, ahem, wider thighs, bigger bottomsand thicker waists looking, well, uncomfortable at best and rather silly at worst.