[Giovanna Clairval]

Hey! I suggested Tinker Bell's dust in the first place!

I haven't read that thread yet, thanks, Gully-Foyle.

The problem with flying humans is the weight of bones, a relatively huge head (plus a large body) and other useless, unbalancing things like those legs, which you, Flag, already noticed.

Titan is a very good, goofy-but-serious SF trilogy. Varley is an obsessive guy, besides being very funny. Since he's a scientist, he must have reflected hard on the problem, given the amount of details. I haven't made the calculations, so I can't vouch for their accuracy.

The problem with wearing a shirt (even an open one) lies in the size of dorsal muscles, which make a bulge and must (I read somewhere) tie themselves low and go down to the waist, forming like a girdle with other muscles.

Steph Swainston, in The Year of Our War, writes about a chap who is the only flying person in his world (the others have vestigial wings). There are just hints of his clothes, if memory serves, but of course it's written in the first person, which helps.
Still, even in the third person, you don't have to describe shirts!

And yes, the idea of handsome shirtless guys appeals to me, Flag Pole!