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.
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.
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
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.
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”.
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.
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, 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, 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.