Scruffy Retrosexuals Rough Up Metrosexuals

Fashion conscious Brit blokes are ditching metrosexual traits like personal hygiene and hair styling and becoming dirty "retrosexuals' according to a new lifestyle guide published by Oxford University.

"The retrosexual is a man who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance," The Guardian revealed this week, "he is scared of hair gel."

The Standard newspaper also highlighted the latest fashion this week, declaring "the retrosexual is scruffy, possibly a little dirty and as unaffected by designer labels as anyone can be'.

Both newspapers, however, failed to mention the sexuality of retros, though Mark Simpson, the British journalist who coined both terms (in 1994), suggested retros are more likely to be gay than metros.

"Pointing to a heterosexual or homosexual is generally not as easy these days, without following them home to check, not least because of the proliferation of the metrosexual," he told the Observer several months ago.

"Hetero metros are probably rather less 'latent' than retrosexuals. They are, after all, rather blatant - in their flirtatiousness," he pointed out.
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