the locker room, continued: bodies hastily assembled from different bodies' parts
most of the E.T.A. upperclassmen have these vivid shoe-and-shirt tans that give them the classic look of bodies hastily assembled from different bodies' parts, especially when you throw in the heavily muscled legs and usually shallow chests and the two arms of different sizes.
Context
The scene's centerpiece image and the fullest statement of the regimen writing itself on the body: shoe-and-shirt tan-lines, "heavily muscled legs and usually shallow chests and the two arms of different sizes" — the athletic body rendered asymmetrical, Frankensteined, "hastily assembled from different bodies' parts" by years of one-handed, ground-hugging, sun-exposed labor. The academy doesn't just condition bodies; it deforms them along the sport's own lopsided vectors, and the tan is the visible record.