Citations:lumbersexual

Noun: "(slang, sometimes used attributively) a male hipster who affects a rugged, outdoorsy look, typified by plaid shirts and a full beard"

 * 2014, "Trends Report", Metro (Ottawa), 6 November 2014, page 26:
 * I've written about how I despise the lumberjack look in previous Trends Report posts, but it appears as though the 'lumbersexual' is on the rise, according to a trending article by Gear Junkie.
 * 2014, Aaron Swaney, "It's November: Put the razor down", The Daily Herald (Everett, Washington), 9 November 2014, page D1:
 * From the rise of the lumbersexual, outdoorsmen's answer to the metrosexual, to the use of beards to sell anything from clothing to beer, beards are cool once again.
 * 2014, Holly Baxter, "Out of the woods, here he comes: the lumbersexual", The Guardian, 14 November 2014:
 * The metrosexual threw caution to the wind and started carrying his moisturiser round in his manbag; the lumbersexual now serves us up a hypermasculine aesthetic with an unashamedly ironic grin.
 * 2014, "Fashion fund finalists", The Daily Athenaeum (West Virginia University), Volume 127, Issue 64, 18 November 2014, page 3:
 * He does a cozy navy blue wool flannel check work shirt (think the new lumbersexual) for men, $365.
 * 2014, Michael Flanagan, "Gold Rush Gays", The Bay Area Reporter, Volume 44, Issue 47, 20 November 2014 - 26 November 2014, page 35 (image caption):
 * 19th-century lumbersexuals? A group of shirtless Comstock miners in a vintage photo in J. S. Hollidays' Rush to Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
 * 2014, Jessica Wallace, "Where have all the moustaches gone?, Merritt Herald, 25 November 2014, page 7:
 * Maybe it's the increasing popularity of the full-on beard among the lumbersexual population
 * 2014, Odeya Pinkus, "Dress for Santacon like a Santa-pro", Pipe Dream (Binghamton University), Volume 86, Issue 24, 5 December 2014:
 * Lumberjack Santa—Channel your inner lumbersexual with this easy and festive look. A pair of jeans, a red plaid shirt and a pair of suspenders will give you the woodsy vibe, especially if you already have a beard.
 * 2014, Naintara Maya Oberoi, "The worst-kept secret", BLink, 6 December 2014, page 21:
 * Based on popularity and pricing, Aux Folies, a graffiti-ed bar that spills over into the alley outside – always full, always cheap, always welcoming – is a contender, although the waitstaff's lumbersexual beards are just a hair too hip.
 * 2015, Lori Cooper, "Coming to terms with fashion terms", Coastal View News (Carpinteria, California), Volume 21, Number 15, 8 January 2015, page 8:
 * Guys who are lumbersexuals wear plaid (naturally), jeans and boots, and want to appear manly.
 * 2015, Harriet Walker, "Bristling with style: the hairy upper lip", The Times (UK), 10 January 2010:
 * Trend-hunters announced last year that we had reached “peak beard”, saturation point with the sort of facial hair that has become the calling card of the urban hipster or “lumbersexual”.
 * 2015, Stephen Doig, "The style tribes of London Collections: Men", The Telegraph, 14 January 2015:
 * The beard is the backbone of the lumbersexual’s look, rugged in appearance but expertly groomed; less the musk of wood chip and saw dust and more the scent of Tom Ford’s Neroli Portofino Conditioning Beard Oil.
 * 2015, Christopher Solomon, "Our Pampered Wilderness", The New York Times, 23 May 2015:
 * My beef isn’t with glamping, despite its issues (unfortunate portmanteau, the image of lumbersexuals playing Ralph Lauren at summer camp). But keep it out of our parks.
 * 2015, Caroline Dunford, Playing for Love, Accent Press (2015), ISBN 9781783757183, unnumbered page, published 16 July 2015:
 * Reginald, young and currently sporting the 'lumbersexual' look of plaid shirt and shaggy beard, threw up his hands in mock self-defence.
 * 2015, Robert J. Crane, Tormented, Midian Press (2015), unnumbered page, published 1 September 2015:
 * “This from a man who's one plaid shirt away from being a lumbersexual,” Zack shot back.
 * 2015, Sarah Mayberry, His Christmas Gift, Tule Publishing (2015), ISBN 9781943963546, unnumbered page, 2 November 2015:
 * The sooner she could escape from the world's least talkative lumbersexual, the better.
 * 2015, Drew Jordan, Crash: Part One, unnumbered page, published 6 November 2015:
 * I was from Seattle, where lumbersexual really was a thing. Flannel had been a fashion statement since grunge and Nirvana, when I was still a baby.