Manning up (Retro-Sexual Look is in Style!)

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 04/07/2010 | Lini S. Kadaba

[Kid Shelleen]

Leo Mulvihill looks the classic man's man.

The hat is one clue. Displaying an old-school flair for style, the 25-year-old law student at Drexel University walks around campus sporting a vintage Brooks Brothers three-piecer and authentic 1960s Florsheims, his trilby cocked just so. --snip-- Say goodbye to the sensitive guy who cries at the drop of a pink tee, or the slacker living with his mother, playing video games. This new man has ambition and aplomb, brawn and brains.

Think Cary Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, or Ernest Hemingway.

[Sacajaweau]

I have a duster, too...and I’m a girl...a girlie gir. When I was young, I looked hot in it!! I’m saving it for my granddaughter..

[LongElegantLegs]

I like his attitude.

[Alkhin]

I never really cottoned to Mitchum so much as I did Gregory Peck and Rex Harrison. And the men who could make me laugh (Bob Hope, Danny Kaye) were just as appealing.

[Cowman]

I believe J Edgar Hoover would fine FBI agents should they be seen in public without a hat.

They would also be fined if they shot a criminal and the criminal lived.

[Alkhin]

YES YES ! I love Dick Cheney! THATS a man!

[Tijeras_Slim]

FBI Agent Campbell at the range.

[stainlessbanner]

Real cowboys don't read faggy magazines to get fashion tips. They win their belt buckles and buy good quality boots b/c the use them. A pair of wranglers and a starched shirt will do.

You can always look at their hands and their boots to determine a working cowhand. Lot of pretty boys driving shiny one-ton trucks with designer shirts, boots with no scuff marks, and hands as smooth as a baby's hiney....they're just "playing cowboy."

[Canedawg]

Perhaps retro/macho is making a comeback in Philly and Kansas, but every time I venture into Manhattan, I notice what appears to me to be a higher and higher percentage of gay males.

[Eva]

The sixties look did not include Florsheim shoes, they were Johnston and Murphy’s. As a matter of fact the J&M shoes were a major part of the look in Philadelphia. Students actually bought new J&M and roughed them up and wrapped them with adhesive tape to look as though the shoes needed to be re-soled. This look was especially popular at the University of PA.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmn.

Well, OK.

But (real/working/blue-collar/production) men need to wear steel-toed leathers ....

[Revolting cat!]

But then how do you know that your real men, but really, most of the time, screen characters played by sissy, neurotic actors, are not wearing women's panties underneath?!

[I Buried My Guns]

"...sporting a vintage Brooks Brothers three-piecer and authentic 1960s Florsheims, his trilby cocked just so...."

I saw this in the dictonary, under T, for "trying too hard".

[madamemayhem]

i wish i could post pics but i am just barely computer friendly and absolutely NOT computer literate. oh well maybe someone will take pity on us and post those wonderful men for us.

[Charles Martel]

You can have your Duke, THIS is the best "man's man" in Hollywood:

Two different (but slightly overlapping) generations of the same guy, really.

[SnakeDoctor]

Its a blog. And I said it was enjoyable, not “needed”.

SnakeDoc

[Favor Center]

“We would be a better country if our “progressives” were like TR.”

He wanted us regular folks to live on communes and thought actually EARNING money was “low class”.

[SJSAMPLE]

LOL.

Last night, for some reason, I kept repeating “The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true”.

Something like that.
I have no idea why.

Danny Kaye was an amazing performer.

[Charles Martel]

One manufacturer, possibly Bostonian, sold a very nice looking black or deep cordovan oxblood wingtip made from some kind of man made material in the early 70’s. A buddy had a pair of these, which we referred to as “plastic fantastic wingtips.”

I remember seeing those, but don't recall who made them. They were popular with the NJROTC guys who were loathe to grab a can of black Kiwi, but the crusty old Master Chief always seemed eager to ding them during inspection.

I believe he considered the aroma of shoe polish and Brasso to be mandatory for anyone in uniform.

[Alberta's Child]

ROFL. Reminds me of the time I got caught in a dust/rain/snow storm out on the prairie . . . the wind was blowing from one direction, so when I got home my truck was caked with a layer of brown mud — but only on one side!

[Alkhin]

Actually I *do* think its needed - especially since we now have several generations of people who have either did everything they could to ‘deconstruct’ manly behavior/manly culture (Boomers, 60s era, 70s era, feminazis etc) and excised whatever inherent lessons a Real Man was supposed to learn from society, or they are kids today who have no real models to go by. Since so many young people today look to the internet for information and advice, I think the blog and resulting links should act as a good resource. Aside from fathers doing the right thing and teaching their own sons how to be a Real Man, shouldnt there be reinforcement in the popular culture for that effort, especially for those whose fathers have shown themselves to be Cowards and run away from their duty to teach? And why not start with how a real man is supposed to look? Have you SEEN the way kids dress these days?????? Am REALLY sick of the gangsta/street culture that has permeated the way they dress. It shouldnt STOP with appearances, but it certainly helps them on their way...