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		<title>Balzac&#8217;s Treatise on Elegant Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balzac&#8217;s &#8220;Treatise on Elegant Living&#8221; was recently given its first  English translation by the newly founded Wakefield Press. I  wrote this essay on it for the latest issue of The  Rake. 
Lessons in Elegance: The words of wisdom contained  within Honoré de Balzac&#8217;s &#8220;Treatise on Elegant Living&#8221; remain pertinent  almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dandy in the Otherworld: In Memory of Sebastian Horsley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Mattis, who has previously written about Sebastian Horsley for Dandyism.net, offers this remembrance.


Dealing with death is always a hard thing. Dealing with the death of someone you have written about is harder still — especially when what you have written about the deceased is not all that nice.
Frequent readers of Dandyism.net will be well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurence Fellows: Master of Menswear Illustration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1934, a gentleman with a neatly trimmed mustache casts an eye in the direction of the door to an office waiting room, temporarily distracting him from the copy of Esquire he’s just picked up. Is he waiting for a stockbroker? A dentist? A divorce lawyer?
We can tell he’s a man of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Dandy? — Gatsby Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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Yesterday was the 25th annual Gatsby Summer Afternoon in the San Francisco Bay Area. The many duded-up gents give us the chance to revisit our &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Dandy?&#8221; series with our first-ever costume edition. Leave a comment to cast your vote on your favorite outfit. Above are John Akridge and Benny Reese. Below, Slimm Buick:

Gregory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elegance Made Casual: The Enduring Style of Fred Astaire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Passionate Spectator&#8221; columnist Robert Sacheli previously delivered a lengthy appreciation on Fred Astaire. Here, inspired by a new biography on the style icon, he takes a curtain call. 
Despite the best intentions of our Founding Fathers, Americans have long been crazy for aristocrats — particularly when it comes to emulating their style. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Are Strange: Chensvold on Eccentrics</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1088</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month my editor at L&#8217;Uomo Vogue emailed me with the subject heading &#8220;Urgente!&#8221; She asked me to write the introductory essay for the upcoming issue, whose theme was &#8220;eccentricity.&#8221; She needed 800 words, and I could take any approach I wanted. The deadline was 24 hours.
I figured every Italian writer on their roster must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decline and Fall: D.net&#8217;s Fifth Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1086</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the five-year anniversary of Dandyism.net.
Usually our fiscal-year recap is penned by managing editor Nick Willard. He will not be addressing you this year because, like all great dandies, he has gone into exile. No one has heard from him for nearly nine months, and his phone just goes to voice mail.
We suspect he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wilde in Chinatown</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1076</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Chinese art possess no elements of beauty.”
Oscar Wilde offered up that curious opinion on a San Francisco-bound ferry boat to a crowd of reporters anxious to record his first impression of the city, which at the time supported one of largest communities of Chinese outside the so-called Celestial Empire. Wilde had been in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy&#8217;s Law</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1080</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long interruption, Dandyism.net presents the final installment of Robert Sacheli&#8217;s article on Gerald Murphy. For convenience&#8217;s sake (and to refresh your memory), we have combined all three parts into this one post.  
Fresh from his assiduous assessment of Lucius Beebe, Sacheli seeks to rescue the reputation of another forgotten 20th-century American dandy for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Toon: Osbert Lancaster and the 20th Century</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1071</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Diabolical Monocle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Stewart Gibson
“Nothing dates so quickly as the apt comment.” So wrote Osbert Lancaster, ruefully reflecting on the inevitable eclipse of his reputation as one of the leading cartoonists, wits and dandies of his day.
Over a period of almost 40 years, Osbert Lancaster became a household name in Britain thanks to his introduction (with some [...]]]></description>
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