{"id":7497,"date":"2016-05-11T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2016-05-20T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:14:19","slug":"lumbersexual-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/11\/lumbersexual-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumbersexual Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/style\/gentlemen-put-down-your-razors-the-hairy-chest-is-back-in-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Gentlemen, put down your razors. The hairy chest is back in style!<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/jonathan-wells\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Wells<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/men\/2016\/05\/09\/Burt_Reynolds-xlarge_trans++a_PnK6kcBhniCWc-jzQzO1qVg8TnxFIhC72fslio_nw.jpg\" alt=\"Reynolds\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Are we seeing a return to the &#8216;rugged manliness&#8217; of Burt Reynolds and Tom Select? \/ CREDIT:\u00a0GETTY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once every few years, an item of clothing or grooming style long written off by the world makes an inexplicable and almighty comeback. From pocket squares to cargo trousers, the great unwashed happily adopt fads and fashions that, only months before, they presumed had been confined forever\u00a0to the big lookbook in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>While this means that a resurgence in mullets or shellsuits lurks forever on the horizon, I ask you to push those shuddersome thoughts to the back of your mind. Because we have\u00a0bigger news: male chest hair is back on trend.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">Y<\/span>es, we&#8217;ve been here before. The furry front was a \u00a0symbol of unbridled virility during much of the 20th century,\u00a0worn with pride by Hollywood leading men like\u00a0Sean Connery, Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck. That all changed in the 1990s, however, when Mark &#8216;Marky&#8217; Wahlberg&#8217;s smooth chested Calvin Klein advert set the world swooning \u2013 and its men waxing. Pileous pecs were out; trimmed torsos were in.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the age of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/the-filter\/11310902\/The-10-new-male-stereotypes-of-2014.html?frame=3109808\" target=\"_blank\">lumbersexual<\/a>,\u00a0chest hair appears to be having a renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/style\/gentlemen-put-down-your-razors-the-hairy-chest-is-back-in-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Gentlemen, put down your razors. The hairy chest is back in style! by\u00a0Jonathan Wells Are we seeing a return to the &#8216;rugged manliness&#8217; of Burt Reynolds and Tom Select? \/ CREDIT:\u00a0GETTY Once every few years, an item of clothing or grooming style long written off by the world makes an inexplicable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}