Who would have guessed that guys like all of us would become the topic of many articles in trendy magazines read mainly by urban young females. Yeah, we are on the leading edge of a growing movement taking place right now. We are the "lumbersexuals." Apparently, the latest trend is for young women in big cities to think of guys who wear flannel shirts, work boots and do manly things like woodworking as "hot." Here's part of an article from "The Atlantic."
The first one I met was at an inauguration party in 2009. I was in a cocktail dress. He was in jeans, work boots, and a flannel shirt. He had John Henry tattooed on his bicep. He was white. Somehow, at a fairly elegant affair, he had found a can of PBR. Since then they’ve multiplied. You can see them in coffee shops and bars and artisanal butchers. They don't exactly cut down trees, but they might try their hand at agriculture and woodworking, even if only in the form of window-box herb gardens.
In the last month, these bearded, manly men even earned themselves a pithy nickname: the lumbersexuals. GearJunkie coined the term only a few weeks ago, and since then Jezebel, Gawker, The Guardian and Time have jumped in to analyze their style. BuzzFeed even has a holiday gift guide for the lumbersexual in your life. (He would, apparently, like bourbon-flavored syrup and beard oil.)
I hope my wife can handle my new image. It's making me feel better already!
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Originally Posted by Bryan Rocker
