”It was all very camp, because many of the guys who wore it first were gay and had more in common with the chicks who were chasing the ultra-butch karate guy. Gay bars during this period reeked of Hai Karate and Aramis.”
— “Martial Lore,” about the 1970s mystique that was Hai Karate aftershave, from the special Men’s Fashion section of today’s New York Times. (And now I’m really curious to smell the stuff.)
Wow… my Grandfather used to wear Hai Karate in the early 70s. Maybe there was something he should’ve told Grandma?