From “D’Orsay, or the Complete Dandy” By W. Teignmouth Shore, 1911 Image: detail of Count d’Orsay in the National Portrait Gallery What a delightful fellow […]
Category: Columns
Letters To A Young Dandy
My Dear Palmieri: It is a rare and wonderful gift for a curmudgeon such as myself to receive the praise of youth. It’s nice […]
Chic Sheik
“Dark Lover,” by Emily W. Leider, is an eminently readable, very sympathetic account of the life and work of Rudolph Valentino. The subject comes across […]
The Jockey Horror Picture Show
While strolling the museum, I recently made the acquaintance of a top-hatted and mustachioed gentleman, who was lounging within the confines of Edouard Manet’s “Bar […]
But Knot For Me
The decadent dandy has as his guidebook “Against Nature,” the “poisonous” yellow book redolent of incense that Lord Henry gives to Dorian, the catalyst for […]
Vape: Infusing Personality and Elegance into Modern Style
In today’s world, the pursuit of individuality and unique lifestyle goes beyond just clothing and outward appearance. More and more people are paying attention to […]
Beauography
I was prepared to thoroughly dislike Ian Kelly’s biography of Beau Brummell. The attendant ballyhoo when it was released was lascivious and sensational — Brummell […]
Refined & Debonair
Beau Brummell By Virginia Woolf, 1925 Image: John Barrymore as Brummell, 1924 When Cowper, in the seclusion of Olney, was roused to anger by the […]
Dancing Chic To Chic
Fred Astaire lounges in a swank London flat, attired in a speckled dressing gown and cravat, musically daydreaming about the girl he’s just met. He’s […]
Subtlety & Dignity
Lounging nude in a bathtub, George Brummell holds a razor to his throat. Will he remove his stubble, or end his life? This stark suicidal […]
Edge Of Reason
Laren Stover’s “Bohemian Manifesto” is not a manifesto at all. It does not hail the wave-like crash of a mighty new movement against the rocky […]
Adventures In Beauty
There is no excitement quite like that of unwrapping books you have just gotten in the mail. Pretensions to maturity and sophistication fly out the […]
Romp And Circumstance
Despite doing his best work while wearing no clothes, Giacomo Casanova has been anointed a sort of patron saint of dandies. Stephen Robins, in his […]
Brideshead Relinquished
Outrage against cultural debasement becomes a dandy as much as a good pair of white summer flannels, but the film adaptation of “Brideshead Revisited” stirred […]
The Fake’s Progress
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’Orsay […]
The Classless Aristocrat
The dandy reveals himself by what he wears. His essence is external display. Photographs, therefore, inherently constitute a better medium to communicate the significance of […]
At Least They’re Not Boring
One of the more frequent visitors to D.net HQ is a certain Lady Friend who hails from Japan and has spent much of her career […]
The Royal We
I most heartily recommend you rush out and purchase Natty Adams and Rose Callahan’s collaboration, “We Are Dandy: The Elegant Gentleman Around the World.” Their […]
Michael Mattis, Dandy Of The Year 2014
This year Dandyism.net bears the sad honor of awarding its first posthumous title of Dandy Of The Year to the late Michael Mattis, who died […]
Dandy Of The Year 2013: Nathaniel Adams
For services rendered to the understanding and misunderstanding of dandyism, as well as perpetually cutting a dashing figure, Dandyism.net is pleased to award Nathaniel Adams […]
Hazlitt’s Dandy School
The Dandy School By William Hazlitt The Examiner, 1827 Vivian Grey is dedicated to the Best and Greatest of men, as if the Illustrious Person […]