"Retrosexual" has replaced "metrosexual" to describe a breed of über-masculine fashionistos (clad in $300 flannel shirts).
Although there was that grungy-vibe (flannel shirts and biker boots), it was girly, young even.
Wearing dashikis, yukatas, and flannel robes—any kind of billowing uni-garment will do the trick.
As I picked up the flannel shirt one morning, I wondered, was I all alone in this?
He was unshaven, with a full mustache and wearing a flannel shirt over a hooded sweatshirt.
She does flannel shirts, but before she got them she nearly starved on underwear.
When I took it off her cheek was red as flannel, and she wanted it put on again.
If he chasss up to one of my old biddies, she tries to tear that flannel suit right offn him.
Now if I just had a strip of flannel to wrap around his chest!
He was dressed as became the season and the heat, and wore only a shirt open at the neck, and a pair of flannel trousers.
c.1500, probably from Welsh gwlanen "woolen cloth," from gwlan "wool," from Celtic *wlana, from PIE *wele- "wool."
The Welsh origin is not a universally accepted etymology, due to the sound changes involved; some (Barnhart, Gamillscheg) suggest the English word is from an Anglo-French diminutive of Old French flaine "a kind of coarse wool." "As flannel was already in the 16th c. a well-known production of Wales, a Welsh origin for the word seems antecedently likely" [OED]. Modern French flanelle is a 17c. borrowing from English.
