Courage

Around 7 pm a young fella emerged from an inner city unit block wearing a pair of the most outrageously coloured pants imaginable. They were of a pink/purple seersucker pattern and cut really tight, accentuating his well developed quadriceps. Worn with a pair of Cuban heeled boots the effect was striking, if not comical. The lad could easily have qualified for the questionable title of Sydney’s most courageous metro sexual.

However footballer Craig Wing currently owns that title for modelling a pair of fuchsia strides at Australian Fashion Week (scroll down sidebar). Coupled with a candy-striped shirt his ensemble epitomised true courage, resulting in one of the funniest talking points of the National Rugby League last year. I carried Wing and a couple of his Eastern Suburbs team mates in the cab over Christmas but no way was I going to mention the unmentionable. Besides, he’s a top bloke who tipped me generously.

Anyway, my passenger last night climbed in the cab and immediately announced, ‘Don’t say anything or I’ll hit you ! It’s a fancy dress party’. ‘Mate’, I laughed, ‘you’re lucky I haven’t got my camera/phone or I’d have you online in ten minutes flat’. ‘Bullshit, there won’t be any photos tonight’, he replied. ‘Hey, don’t bet on it, almost everyone has a camera phone’. Especially where he was going - a 21^st birthday party in Mosman.

In fact, the young fella looked pretty cool with his silly pants and only lacked the confidence to pull it off. Additionally he was tall, well built and exceedingly handsome with a cherubic face which exuded youthful innocence. An irresistible magnetism for which those Mosman girls would fearlessly crawl over broken glass, in order to devour him. Or any girl for that matter.

Despite the outrageous pants he possessed a laid back personality with a certain shyness. Being a country kid from Central Western New South Wales, he revealed that after 2 years in Sydney he’d had enough and was keen to return home to work on the family farm. Here he was working in a bar, interspersed with marketing work which utilised his good looks.

Hopping out of the cab he spotted a crowded party balcony across the street and hesitated. ‘Gees, this is going to be the longest walk of my life’, he said. ‘Don’t worry about it’, I told him, ‘it’s fancy dress, just a bit of fun. Get into it’. Though he really had nothing to worry about.

Some of the young guys I carry are gelled, buffed, moisturised and perfumed to the nth degree. To me they look a lot sillier than my passenger in his fancy dress gear for those guys seriously cultivate their presentation.

Apparently they adopt such grooming to demonstrate their feminine side as a method of pulling women. And even more bewildering to this old fart, girls are impressed by this. In my day a bloke was only required to shower, shave and wear a clean shirt. Too easy.

Comments

[dee]

Guess I must be getting old, but Jude Law and co. really turn me off. Pretty boys simply don't interest me, in any way. Bugger their feminine side. Has anyone noticed that the male face seems to be changing? Males are looking more and more girly.

EE--WWW.

[PQ]

Interesting comment about men's faces.

I was looking at some online photos of World War 2 Diggers recently, and the thought occurred to me that they all looked tough as old boots, even though most of them appeared to be in their 20's.

I suppose hard times can be mirrored in a face from an early age, as much as an easy life softens it.

[sTeph]

Yeah i've had enough of the metrosexuals. I can't handle any guy spending more time in front of the mirror than me :P

[i]

My girlfriend's Nan told us a story about how during the 40's (?) there was a competition run from a taylor near Central Station where if you walked in a pair of bright red pants from the shop to Circular Quay and back you'd get a free suit. Apparently they couldn't get any takers, such was the outrageousness of red pants.

I rekon if you ran the competition today you'd have to fight people off even if it was walk there and back naked.

[Dirk Thruster]

Shower and a clean shirt, huh?
Poof.

[Currently Overseas]

I agree ladies - I like a man who scrubs up well but what happened to the days when men were MEN and women were ladies ????

[Yobbo]

"I agree ladies - I like a man who scrubs up well but what happened to the days when men were MEN and women were ladies ????"

Men stopped doing it because women all of a sudden started assuming that men that acted and dressed manly were wife beaters and misogynists.

Now if you go out dressed like that nobody will talk to you. So men have adjusted. No point in women complaining about something that they brought about themselves.

[caesar]

'cause in too many places these days the women are women and the "men" are too.

[adrian]

Speaking of groovy metrosexuals, check this image.