The premise behind a "Sad Tan" is very simple.
1) Girls ride bikes. We ride through the forests and the cities, in the night and in the day, through the rain and the sun. We are everywhere, pedaling our little hearts out.
2) Girls wear low-rise jeans. It's gone from a fashion fad to an irritating, unavoidable fashion norm. I've tried to find a good pair of riding jeans, I really have. But apparently the "Jordache" look isn't cool anymore and everything else varies from showing a little crack to showing a whole lot of crack.
3) Low-rise jeans give girls muffin top. It's a scientific fact. I've seen otherwise svelte young ladies rocking the bulging sides due to the awkward cut and unfortunate tight waist band of low-rise. If you aren't familiar with the term, click here and learn more: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=muffin+top
4) When riding muffin top is greatly exaggerated. Yet another scientific fact. It's because most bicycle designs make the cyclist hunch over. Furthermore, due to the slightly bent over position, the cyclist's shirt, no matter how long, will often creep up and up and up until a small length of skin is exposed.
5) The small length of skin sees a lot of sun and gets wicked tan.
6) When the rider gets off the bike, the muffin top is released. The love-handles, muffin-top, whatever you want to call it, sinks back down to it's normal position.
7) The resulting tan looks like a lower back frown.
[Literally, a Sad Tan]
Thank you, thank you. More soon.
And for any word nerds out there:
Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE sæd grave, heavy, weary, orig. sated, full; c. Gsatt, Goth saths full, satisfied; akin to L satis enough, satur sated, Gk hádēn enough. See satiate, saturate
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Origin: bef. 1000; 1920–25 for def. 2; ME tannen to make hide into leather, late OE *tannian (in ptp. getanned; cf. tanner 1 ) <>tannāre, deriv. of tannum oak bark, tanbark <>tannaoak, fir, akin to D den fir
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