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		<title>Dandy in the Otherworld: In Memory of Sebastian Horsley</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1118</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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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>Last of the Dapper Politicos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Willard</dc:creator>
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If politics make strange bedfellows, the strangest must be the dandy and the politician.
Yes, there is a long tradition of political dandyism from Alcibiades to William Pitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Samuel Hoare and Anthony Eden in Britain, and the young Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Walker, and former Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the United States.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Vs. Literary Dandyism</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1040</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The split between the dandyism of clothes and the dandyism of words is the subject of our most recent Library addition: &#8220;Social and Literary Dandyism,&#8221; published in Littell&#8217;s Living Age in 1880.
In its rambling way, Littell&#8217;s unsigned article compares the purely social dandy — the Beau Brummells and Poodle Bings — with his literary counterpart.
&#8220;Dandies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s Not Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=1028</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most famous of all dandy admonishments is Brummell&#8217;s simple warning, &#8220;If John Bull turns to look after you, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.&#8221;
Later worthies echo the Beau&#8217;s sentiment. &#8220;Never in your dress altogether desert that taste which is general,&#8221; is one of Pelham&#8217;s maxims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fake&#8217;s Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=703</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Willard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every era gets the dandies it deserves.
The Regency got Brummell, a true sartorial innovator whose wit was as crisp as his country-washed linen. Count D&#8217;Orsay alleviated Victorian stuffiness with his manly charm, and the Edwardian Era was graced by Saki and Max Beerbohm, who all but reinvented the rapier wit. The Deco era had thoroughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Autocrat of the Three-Martini Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=351</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Willard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bon vivantism, if that is indeed a legitimate phrase, is a characteristic — or, if you prefer, a malady — particularly evident in great historians and men of letters. From Ben Franklin and Emile Zola to Winston Churchill and Bernard DeVoto — whose book &#8220;The Hour&#8221; is perhaps the most elegant paean to cocktail time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Very Model of a Modern Major Minor</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=307</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Willard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have never heard of Osbert Lancaster. He is one of those minor dandies who achieved a quiet perfection in his everyday life, though never rose to legendary status.
No, Lancaster simply dressed carefully, offered wry commentary on the world through his writing and illustrations, and lived a leisurely and mildly sybaritic life. Few men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beaux Regard</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=130</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habits &#8212; good, bad and in between &#8212; start early.
The other day, as I sat in my easy chair reading Christopher Hibbert&#8217;s new biography &#8220;Disraeli, the Victorian Dandy who Became Prime Minister,&#8221; I pondered the nascence of my own flirtation with, and ultimate surrender to, the doctrine dandyism. As a boy I was always dressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashionably Intellectual</title>
		<link>http://www.dandyism.net/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, I have found that dandies trend toward the right while aesthetes trend left. It&#8217;s a not a hard and fast rule of course: Oscar Wilde wrote a famously ignorant essay entitled &#8220;The Soul of Man Under Socialism&#8221; (and when he was old and dandified enough to know better). On the other hand, the [...]]]></description>
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