'I don't have an issue with it,' said Jeff Metzdorff, owner of the Mill City Running store in Minneapolis and the Saint City Running store in St. 'The exertion provides a context for someone understanding why your shirt might be off,' Senning said. It's pretty common for male runners to exercise without a shirt on to try to stay cool in warm weather.

'Topless! Topless in a public place that happens to be neither a beach nor a swimming pool, nor the changing room at Helmut Lang,' the British tabloid gasped.Ī runner with a painted face heads for the finish line of the Twin Cites Marathon. A columnist for the Daily Mail ripped into TV personality Simon Cowell for going shirtless while walking along the quayside in Nice, France. Still, just being near the water might not be good enough for some. You can feel fine taking off your shirt on a friend's boat, but maybe not at a backyard barbecue. Taking your shirt off at the beach or the pool is fine, because you might be taking a dip. So when is going shirt-free socially acceptable? We asked a few experts where and when it's OK for men to bare their torsos. 'You just don't do it,' he said of going shirtless. Still, when he's out and about in his hometown of Wanamingo, Minn., he wears a shirt. Beyer is president of the Oakwood Club, a nudist campground near Stacy, Minn. That's why Darwin Beyer keeps his shirt on in public. 'You're revealing too much, and it's not tasteful for all age groups.' 'We as a people, especially here in America, we lean toward public modesty,' Mitchell said.

So even though you might be comfortable in your own skin, people around you might not be. And while male shirtlessness is 'not verboten' because it's no longer considered 'explicitly revealing,' it is 'incredibly casual,' Senning said.īut etiquette is about the impact you have on other people, said Juliet Mitchell, a Twin Cities-based etiquette expert. Until the 1930s, it was illegal in most cities and states in America for men to go shirtless in public, according to the Washington Post. 'It's a really interesting etiquette question,' said Daniel Post Senning, great-great-grandson of famed etiquette expert and an author, speaker and podcaster with the Vermont-based Emily Post Institute. Summer is finally here, with hot, humid days that will tempt many men to ask themselves: Should I take my shirt off?

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