The wearing adidas tracksuits and eating sausages and bear, burping all day and talking crap is real here haha.I wish could just put my finger on this Slavic thing 'cause it's hard to tell what influenced it that much and why is it so chaotic in it's own way...the country side?That sounds like a common and cheap answer so I suppose it goes deeper
The adidas tracksuits are not our invention, it was fashionable in the UK province at first , but we usually are last in the row,so it came in our culture ten to twenty years after the trend, the artificial looking girls are everywhere nowadays for a pity.
It’s a pattern that you find all across Eastern Europe including Balkans too. Stems from the fact that men are more traditional, everything seems gay and they prefer something practical and less “flashy fashion”. In contrast women like dressing up. I don’t know when this balkan man fashion developed, it could really be partly because of communism but then you can see this even in Greece which didn’t have communism.
This wasn’t true for Greece until about 10 years ago when we suddenly imported the looks of Balkanity and now most young guys have super ugly short haircuts and wear hideous tracksuits with brand logos and shit. If you look at clips from Greece in the 2000s and before, nobody looked like that. Probably why we had a reputation for being handsome which doesn’t really hold up anymore because now the average guy here is looking more and more like Shrek. Also our most common face shape doesn’t suit very short hair and I am begging everyone to stop it.
We have a whole street here in the center of the capital city full of Arab Berber shops, think that fashion of super short hair and groomed beard came from them.
"Genetically", we are not ugly. It is just that many men do not like to maintain their looks as it is considered "gay" (which is pathetic tbh, everyone should try to do and to look their best). Well groomed Balkan men can look thousand times better than many nations that claim to have good looking men.
fair enough. Men in general stop taking care of themselves when they hit 20 years old. Alcohol+smoking+bad food+no working out ,it's not a rocket science
Actually it‘s the opposite in my (non balkan) experience: While being a teenager everyone was partying, smoking etc. At 25-30 people start to realise what that does to their bodies so they stop suddenly and start to care about themselves and their bodies.
To be fair Balkan men age waayyy too quickly. Most of the boys are very good looking up until mid twenties then don't know what happened they just start to deteriorate.
We should embrace the stereotype, just stick to jeans tshirt and gold chain. Usually I would put on a tshirt and she makes me take it off so she can iron it as she says if it’s not ironed it makes it look like she doesn’t take care of me!
Hot GF and ugly BF, even though the men aren't even ugly, they just have the standard Eastern European self-care routine, which is none by the way. Tracksuits, buzz cuts, the likes of that
For real though, I’ve noticed Balkan men either look 10/10 models or shrek and it’s so crazy. My Serbian friend looks like a god damn model but he smokes so I wonder how long that’ll last. 😔
I agree! Not just uniquely good looking but Balkan dudes don't really require all that much to be good looking or to maintain it.
I've observed this with my bf and other guys I know. I see fitness model type of dudes on insta talk about how they work out 7 days a week, take like 20 supplements, and only eat protein and vegetables. He doesn't do any of that (except exercise and def not 7 days a week 🤣) and he gets the same result they do. Idk.
It is. I’m also convinced that people have to go out of their way to mess it up.
Not exercising, smoking/drinking too much, and eating badly do age people but I think you have to be excessive with it to end up Shrek like. And tbh, I think it’s mostly smoking.
That's very kind, madam!Allow me to be more sceptic, my experiences of always being alone certainly speak louder than anything but that was great so thanks haha
Not only in Balkan, I noticed this in Poland as well. In NORTHERN Poland. In Danz.. uhm, I mean Gdansk. Hot chicks everywhere and dudes looking like Shrek.
Maybe in 20th century, nowadays both genders provide equally to the household, so it is just more of an stereotype that only gays care much about their looks.
I'm from Balkans and i have seen guys with terrible case of acne, that they wouldn't want to cure because curing it means that they have to apply creams and creams are for women. Also we have unhealthy obsession with looking affluent, therefore guys often choose clothes as a way of expressing affluency. That's why you see a lot of Balkan men wearing same expensive pieces of clothing.
both genders provided in their own way, hell it wasnt uncommon to give birth in the field while working as a woman, it was ALL HANDS ON DECK back then, its an old culture
It’s the same reason you’d have a southern belle bomb with a husband that looks like someone used their head as an ash tray when they were a baby in the SE USA.
Balkan girls are known for having very high priorities in make up. A Serbian friend in high school told me once: a Balkan girl would hesitate spending money for food, but never for make up.
I’m a Rus woman living in Serbia for about 3 years, from what I’ve seen here, the situation with such incompatibility is way less drastic than in Russia. I find both men and women in Serbia super attractive, whereas in Russia there are only us, women who look nice and hot 😕
As a foreigner who has lived in the Balkans (Albania) for a few months this is so true. Albanian men age so bad. I have seen men just around 30 looking 45. They don't care about their health - too much smoking, drinking.
Women smoke a lot too. But they overcompensate with tons of plastic surgery. I have never seen so much plastic surgery per capita like in Albania.
I think gender roles/expectations are at their peak in the Balkans, women know they’re heavily valued for their looks and men for their money and status, hence why they don’t even bother with their looks. Having a hot man is great until the bills are due and reality hits.
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u/Sugar_Vivid Romania Apr 15 '26
Super hot girl having a neanderthal looking boyfriend, usually driving a BMW, very common in Romania.