Comments on: Issue: Hairy back and hairy chest show through shirts.

By: salvo

salvo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:47:51 +0000

I have an allergy to latex, and developed a rash a few years ago around the waistlne where my underwear hit.

I found a company in Colorado that made boxers that buttoned up, and I bought a bunch. They weren’t cheap, and I was disappointed that they didn’t last too long—they all developed tears in the seams that I’d like to attribute to my enormous penis, but more realistically they just weren’t made to last.

I ended up finding a prescription ointment that got rid of the rash.

By: Phil Bebbington

Phil Bebbington — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:50:46 +0000

Thankfully a hairy back and chest have never been an issue for me. Of course, I’d never survive in the wild if some bear nicked my clothes whilst bathing in a stream. An unlikely scenario I know, but still!

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:37:28 +0000

These are deep waters.

By: Coop

Coop — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:44:11 +0000

Would it, seriously, be possible to link the preference on non-hairy chests to ‘hippiedom’ and early ’70s musical androgyny, or is it just Madison Avenue and underwear models?

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:54:58 +0000

Aw, Cooper, you know the answer to your question concerning the history of hairy chests and their non-acceptance.

It was when boys started growing their hair long and wearing sissy clothes and before long you couldn’t tell the boys from the girls.

But seriously — ahem –

In ‘matters of the cloth’ (fashion, broadly considered), you just have to adopt a completely different mental timeline.