Bare chested

"Bare chested" refers to the state of not wearing any clothes above the waist. If someone is bare chested, then their entire torso is exposed. It is also known as "stripped to the waist", or "being shirtless", or "topless", although the latter is usually only applied to women. It is much more common for men to be bare chested than women, since in most places it is illegal for a woman to be bare chested. See also topfree equality.

Famous bare chesters

A lot of musicians go bare chested whilst performing, this may add to the visual attractiveness of the musicians and their performance, and is also practical due to the intense heat from the studio/arena lights. Actors and wrestlers also appear bare chested. Tatoos and body art such as nipple piercings are often displayed by bare chested rock musicians. Famous bare chesters include:

Related Topics:
Tatoos - Body art

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• Brandon Boyd, singer in rock group Incubus (there is at least one shirtless scene in each chorus in the video for their 2001 hit Drive)
• Phil Collen, lead guitarist of the British band Def Leppard, will often take the stage in the beginning with a shirt on, however, as the show progresses, he removes it and will play the rest of show shirtless.
• Clark Gable. Gable's bare chested scene in the movie It Happened One Night is widely believed to have caused a drop in the sale of undershirts
• Ian Grushka, bassist in punk group New Found Glory
• Salman Khan, Indian Bollywood actor
• Shavo Odadjian, bassist of rock group System of a Down
• Flávio and Gustavo Mendonça, stars of Brazilian soap operas
• Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen
• Jim Morrison, singer of The Doors. While he did not perform bare chested often, his shirtless appearance in publicity photos accompanying the Door's 1967 debut album cover was extremely influential in male fashion
• Nick Oliveri, ex-bassist in rock group Queens of the Stone Age
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, rock group who frequently perform shirtless (hence the terminology doing a Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
• Robert Plant, lead singer of Led Zeppelin would often perform in a small, unbuttoned shirt, thus appearing mostly bare chested.
• Iggy Pop, singer
• Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC
• Frank Sepe, bodybuilder