{"id":154005,"date":"2020-07-27T15:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/27\/if-zac-efron-has-a-dad-bod-what-hope-is-there-for-the-rest-of-us-priya-elan\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T15:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:54:27","slug":"if-zac-efron-has-a-dad-bod-what-hope-is-there-for-the-rest-of-us-priya-elan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=154005","title":{"rendered":"If Zac Efron has a \u2018dad bod\u2019, what hope is there for the rest of us? | Priya Elan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If reactions to the actor\u2019s ridiculously healthy body are anything to go by, the age of dad prefixes has surely run its courseAbout five years ago, \u201cdad-\u201d became a funky, lovable prefix to describe the delightfully out of touch. The lexicon grew from \u201cdad rock\u201d (anything on a High Fidelity-like list of best albums, compiled by the grey-haired 50 Quid Man) to \u201cdad jokes\u201d (lots of puns, very \u201cbudget Christmas cracker\u201d vibes). The fashion umbrella term \u201cdadcore\u201d grew out of normcore, the trend for consciously \u201cunfashioning\u201d and dressing down, and the presidency of Barack Obama shifted the dial, style-wise, for men of a certain age. Indeed the key elements of the imagined \u201cdadcore\u201d wardrobe were modelled on him. High-waisted, shapeless denim trousers (dad jeans), wide-brimmed caps (dad hats) and old-school, chunky trainers (dad shoes) became a look.Although it ultimately always semaphored loose-fitting sportswear, \u201cdadcore\u201d went on to encompass trends such as bumbags, tie-dye T-shirts, sandals worn with socks. At his 2018 Balenciaga show, the designer Demna Gvasalia took this to its logical extreme: shapeless silhouettes (leather jackets with unrepentant tassels, Hawaiian shirts, boxy suit jackets) worn by bald models accessorised with actual children. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/27\/zac-efron-dad-bod-actor\" target=\"_blank\">If Zac Efron has a \u2018dad bod\u2019, what hope is there for the rest of us? | Priya Elan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If reactions to the actor\u2019s ridiculously healthy body are anything to go by, the age of dad prefixes has surely run its courseAbout five years ago, \u201cdad-\u201d became a funky, lovable prefix to describe the delightfully out of touch. The lexicon grew from \u201cdad rock\u201d (anything on a High Fidelity-like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}