Hobo Sapiens
Tired of being a Metrosexual and looking for a new persona? Or is every cell in your being diametrically opposite and you just couldn’t jump on that bandwagon? I have always been told that if I refuse to fall in with the latest trends, that somehow if I just waited long enough the fashion pendulum would swing back and I would suddenly and effortlessly be at the height of fashion.
Just like the “grunge” trend made people that naturally wore torn jeans or look like they didn’t shower suddenly hip, a new day of accidentally fashionable may have dawned.
According to the Urban Dictionary, a Hobosexual is:
Adjective. The opposite of metrosexual; one who cares little for one’s own appearance.
Examples: Michael Moore, Peter Jackson.
First documented hobosexual - John the Baptist.
Harriet ( TastyVintage) alerted the vintage community to this interview with Charlie Waller, Singer/Guitarist of the Rumble Stips, who happens to personify this on the VFG Public Forum. Waller states on being in a band on tour: If you are on the road, what do you pack? I don’t pack anything. I just walk out the door. Sometimes I take some underpants in my jacket pocket, but usually I just don’t bother to pack.
Will this catch on? Who knows. But I guarantee if it does, like the grunge movement did, hangers-on will get the rumpled, unshowered look by purchasing a product or spray to create it.
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LMAO! It’s the first I have heard of the term and I LOVE IT! Hobosexual = Willie Nelson. No matter how hard you scrub him, he still has the look.
For the vast majority of DressThatMan.com customers, when buying 70’s polyester they can pass out in it and not look like a hobosexual because it won’t keep wrinkles in much at all. In fact, I’m sure you could sleep in it, stand up for an hour and the wrinkles fall out and party nonstop just like that for a month…
LOL - the shirt will look fab but the face may look a little scruffy after a month. But its Christmas time so they can always don a red hat and really make that work for them