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Of 'murse' and gold chains

Men who wear gold will no longer be dismissed as lovers for bling

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Ambi M G Parameswaran
I was getting ready to head out to a concert when I picked up my little leather bag. My son noticed it and said, “So you too carry a murse!”. I asked him what he meant, and he explained that a “man’s purse” was a “murse”. Very funny, I mumbled, and headed out.

The Vanity Fair magazine coined the term “metrosexual” two decades ago to capture a new trend among young men. A metrosexual, according to Vanity Fair, was a man who moisturised and read a lot of magazines; two traits till then largely confined to the fairer sex. 

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