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.

[Alkhin]

PICTURES, LADIES - I WANNA SEE YOUR IDEAL ‘RETRO’ REAL MAN!!! I just posted mine!

[Alkhin]

Here's another Retro Man Im rather fond of - and Im talking RE-TRO. Hat included!

How about this guy with a 'hat'?

And for something a little different but he always invokes the Retro through his music and style: Harry Connick Jr.

[Alberta's Child]

I have two of those — plus a black canvas half-length duster jacket. It’s great for fall weather outdoors.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with you 100%.

I do drive a full-sized pickup, and I did just get it "warshed" the other day . . . but that's only because I still care about how it looks. Once it gets a little ragged it will be "real." LOL.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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.”

[DesScorp]

It’s about time. Men should look like men.

[Little Ray]

Read “Liberal Fascists” by Jonah Goldberg.
Teddy was a precursor to Obama. Sad, but true.

[Sacajaweau]

I can still remember the little shoeshine thing...Open it up..and everything was there...brushes, tins of paste...soft cloth (old cloth diapers are best)

We would have made good Marines!!!

[Sacajaweau]

Dad always wore a hat...and a vest..

[longtermmemmory]

never trust a man who wears a pink izod shirt.

[madamemayhem]

unacceptable substitute for real “retrosexual” men. we need pics of uber hottie Robert Mitchum and total manly man John Wayne from the 1940’s - 1960’s. we will only accept the original manly, not a cheap modern knock off.

[Alkhin]

*GASP* one of true "Real Men" left in movies today and you call him a cheap knockoff??? Get thee hence to a DVD player and rent Master and Commander!!!

*beat you with a wet noodle*

Now...having said that, DO POST PICS of Mitchum, Wayne, et al. I WANNA SEE THEM!!! Love those Real Men too!

[SJSAMPLE]

Robert Mitchum.
Great actor, but as “Family Guy” so aptly pointed out, “in shape/out of shape” guy.

[LucyJo]

Real men are always real men because of what they are - not because of what they are wearing. ; )

[LongElegantLegs]

‘Perfectly cocked Trilbys’ would be an awesome name for a band.

[txhurl]

Ha! I washed half my truck yesterday. In a parking space, a whacked-out irrigation head was blasting, so I parked there.

Didn’t have time to back in the other way to wash the other side.

[Clemenza]

The gays would call it “butching up.” We retrosexuals have to be careful, however, as the gay fashionistas may appropriate this just as they did the biker look and facial hair back in the 1970s.

[Clemenza]

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

[Joe 6-pack]

"I read “The Art of Manliness” on occasion, and find it an enjoyable read..."

LOL...if you need a book about how to be manly (especially one with "Art" in the title), you're probably not...

[21twelve]

Great - I think I just tossed my old pair of wingtip Florsheims that I have had since highschool! They were reddish/brown - so was that the Oxblood? Well, I hadn’t worn them in 30+ years - seemed too “old fashioned”. Oh well.