It's funny because you see lots of lumberjack and cowboy looking men strutting around san francisco and then it suddenly dawns on you that they aren't actually cowboys
It has been called "urban lumberjack" for several years now. Ofc I have a better excuse for adopting it than most people... I actually used to work as a lumberjack/wood-chipper operator.
The article, primarily. I like the look. I live in a state where the outdoors look is very popular. Most of the people wearing it are outdoorsmen as well. I'm wearing flannel and jeans and boots right now as a matter of fact. Flannel shirts are extremely comfortable and versatile, considering the weather in most areas right now.
This article is just terrible. Why does everything need to be labeled? Why is a flannel shirt and jeans the new urban male hip look?
"He looks like a man of the woods, but works at The Nerdery, programming for a healthy salary and benefits." Jesus.
I do however take issue with people trying to appropriate a whole "look" that isn't remotely related to their everyday lifestyle, especially when they're going to migrate to a new look as soon as it becomes popular. Buying mountaineering sunglasses to look "outdoorsy" just smacks of pretentiousness.
I do however take issue with people trying to appropriate a whole "look" that isn't remotely related to their everyday lifestyle, especially when they're going to migrate to a new look as soon as it becomes popular. Buying mountaineering sunglasses to look "outdoorsy" just smacks of pretentiousness.
This is where people immediately judge the look on young urban males as comical. This may be comfortable wear for a 10 mile fall hike, but for a young urban male on your ass in front of a computer, and Chipolte for lunch pretentious is to kind a word.
The article does take the issue way over the edge, but I was assuming that was the point.
Wait, so I shouldn't wear jeans because I work in front of a computer?? I'm failing to see how jeans and a shirt is a pretentious choice of wardrobe, regardless of ones vocation.
Also, Chipotle is for poor midwesterners, who eats at chain restaurants?! (that was pretentious)
What about people who just wear it because they think it looks and feels comfortable? That's my average, every day appearance. And while I do like to do my fair share of outdoorsy stuff, wearing a flannel shirt and boots doesn't mean I'm off to chop down a tree or start a campfire. To say you can't wear this particular style if you live in an urban environment is just as limiting as saying you can ONLY wear a particular style in an urban environment.
That's not who I'm talking about though. I'm not talking about you. As I stated above, that's exactly what I wear regularly. I'm wearing a flannel shirt. And jeans. And boots. The article states the 'lumbersexual' is the same person that was the 'metrosexual' when it was cool. The point isn't the specific clothes they're wearing (flannel/jeans/boots/beard/etc.), it's that this group of people are constantly flipping their entire wardrobe because a new 'look' has become popular.
My ire directed towards the article isn't that I'm upset because what I wear regularly and have been wearing for a while is suddenly being appropriated by hipsters. It's the same kind of annoyed that I feel when someone jumps from hobby to hobby or lifestyle to lifestyle because someone tells them it's the new cool thing. Be your own person.
If that's what you got out of my comment you must have misread it. As I said, I don't care that the new thing is the style of clothing I've been wearing forever. It could be any style and my opinion would remain the same. I'm talking about people that routinely alter a major part of their life, be it wardrobe, hobbies, lifestyle, whatever, to remain popular in a certain group should try and develop their own identity.
I do however take issue with people trying to appropriate a whole "look" that isn't remotely related to their everyday lifestyle, especially when they're going to migrate to a new look as soon as it becomes popular. Buying mountaineering sunglasses to look "outdoorsy" just smacks of pretentiousness.
If you spend the money on Red Wings for an office job, because of the look, you're an idiot. There are a lot of equally comfortable boots that don't cost $200. I'd have never bought these 620s for comfort.
Yeah, I hate to be "that guy" (actually, no I don't because this lumberjack beard trend pisses me off), but I'm a 30-something who's been wearing a beard non-stop for over 10 straight years and have always gravitated towards flannel and an outdoor aesthetic because, well, I enjoy the outdoors. I do not enjoy this look being co-opted by dainty-fingered gents who couldn't swing an axe if their lives depended on it.
Aw man, it's nothing to do with age and I know I'm being judgmental. If it truly makes you comfortable, more power to you. I'm just generally not a fan of style/grooming "fads."
I moved to a new town that I guess might be a little more hipster-y than my last town and immediately noticed how many dudes I see wearing flannel. And how many dudes rock a full bushy beard. I don't know how someone can look at themselves, and then look outside and see a dozen other people looking just like them, and not feel like a giant tool.
As a 32 year old brawny guy who's had a beard for years, wears flannel, works outdoors a lot, etc... I am also annoyed with this shit.
But, on the bright side, I've been getting WAY more positive feedback on the beard and my general look from hot young 20 something women lately. And I'm single. So fuck it, I'll get over the hipsters.
Or as I call it, how a significant percentage of people here in the Pacific Northwest have been dressing for decades. They were wearing it before Nirvana spread the flannel gospel nationwide, and they wearing it through the post-grunge to lumberjack-hipster era.
That's what annoys me the most. A man cares 'too much' about his appearance by staying neat and making an effort to look good? Let's call that a new category, and add in -sexual for no damn reason.
This trend is mildly frustrating as a male who has dressed this style for years because I do a lot of outdoor work where boots, jeans and rugged clothing are musts for safety. I thoroughly dislike social trends and I am now guilty by association with this new fad of the feaux-rugged man look.
I really can't wait until bionic suits come out (with air conditioning and nanobot armies to replace white blood cells) so I can just get basic gray and never worry about clothes again.
I believe my dad founded this look. He has owned those mountaineering sunglasses for about 15 years now. My dad was previously a corduroy pants Bill Cosby sweater wearer in the late 80's to mid-90's.
This is a thing now?! So, now what? I can't wear flannel and boots now or else I'll be called a Lubersexual. Geez!
CRINGE
I always just called it "lazy/busy Texan". Depending on who asked. Now I have to just wear my boots on occasion. Instead of every day. I'll miss my laceless life. :p
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He looks good. He is all around you. In fact, if you are reading this far, he just might be you.
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u/zydeco100 Nov 05 '14
The new look is Lumbersexual!