The Amateur of Fashion By SC Hall The St. James’s Magazine, 1862 Towards the conclusion of the first decade of the present century, a young […]
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The Dandy’s Perambulations
The Dandy’s Perambulations Author unknown, 1819 Five hours (and who can do it in less?) By Mr. Pink was spent in dressing. […]
Yes Sir, That’s Our Beebe
When Dandyism.net launched in 2004, we stated as our mission the desire to rescue the dandy from the slag heap of history through rigorous scholarship […]
Snob Story
G. Bruce Boyer herein recounts a lesser-known anecdote about the stupendously dapper Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with whom Boyer was privileged to lunch late in Fairbanks’ […]
Count, Your Blessings
In 1844, at the height of his fame, Count Alfred d’Orsay found himself lampooned in print. Writing under the pen name A Man of Fashion, […]
Proud Independence
From “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave” By Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, 1848 Image: 1890 engraving of Almack’s Club in 1815 There was no longer any question […]
An Ideal Dandy
Hugh Grant, that blend of Christopher Robin and cuddly roué is the ideal cinematic Englishman. Take the hesitant stutter and the shyness of his “I […]
Beau Jest
Everyone knows the jests and bon mots of Beau Brummell’s as recounted by Captain Jesse. The “Do you call that thing a coat?” line, and […]
Microbian Dandyism
Perhaps because of our Proustian and Balzacian education, we have been convinced for years that dandyism as we know it from literature and history has […]
Exclusive Member
The 2005 bicentenary of the Pere Lachaise cemetery caused an extraordinary phenomenona worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe tale. The mystery discovered by Parisian keepers […]
Jolly Roger
For his 80th birthday in 2007, Sir Roger Moore received an appropriate present: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moore attended the […]
Stiff Upper Quip
Dry, dapper and a master of light comedy, David Niven was not only an English gentleman navigating the Hollywood miasma, but a “first-rate personality. A […]
Dazzling Beauty
If Catherine Breillat could be anyone in the world, she’d be the man pictured below. No, not the “dazzling beauty” pictured above, but the guy […]
Tread Lightly
The merely well dressed man has his Edward Greens and his John Lobbs (from Paris, of course, not London). The shoe fetishist dons his […]
Dressed To Swill
The dressing gown was the perfect camouflage. Luxurious, sensual, and slightly louche, it’s a garment made for activities no more strenuous than arching an eyebrow, […]
Jim Dandy
The members of the opening-night audience for “Manhattan Mary,” Broadway’s most anticipated musical of 1927, was startled at the end of the second act when […]
Bunny Roger
Bunny Roger By Clive Fisher The Independent, 1997 Erstwhile couturier, wit, dandy, landowner, and social ornament, Bunny Roger was what obituary in its obliquer days […]
Sunflower Man
“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 […]
Last of the Dapper Politicos
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 […]
Murphy’s Law
“The true dandy was not the most foppishly dressed, the most stylish, the most flash-mannered; he was primarily an artist of talent.” — From […]
Dandy of the Year: Sebastian Horsley
When Oscar Wilde arrived in the United States, he said, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” When Sebastian Horsley arrived, he said, “I […]