The Art of Wearing Clothes: The history of this rare masculine art and of the men who practice it supremely well By George Frazier Esquire, […]
A Man For Times Of Decadence
From “Essai de psychologie contemporaine: Charles Baudelaire” by Paul Bourget La Nouvelle Revue 13, 1881 If a special nuance in the meaning of love and […]
Blackwood’s On Brummell
Beau Brummell From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1844 Article unsigned Minor edits by Moonstone Research and Publications Image: Richard Mansfield as Beau Brummell, 1907 All things […]
The Dandies, 1861
The Dandies From Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, 1861 By Anonymous While George III was king, a great number of remarkable events […]
Hazlitt’s Brummelliana
Brummelliana By William Hazlitt, 1828 Image: Detail from 1924 movie poster We look upon Beau Brummell as the greatest of small wits. Indeed, he may […]
Beaux Regard
Habits — good, bad and in between — start early. The other day, as I sat in my easy chair reading Christopher Hibbert’s new biography “Disraeli, […]
The Parks Of London
From “The Parks of London,” 1868 By Mary Elizabeth Braddon Image: “Portrait of Octave Maus” by Theo Van Rysselberghe But we must pass on […]
The Eccentric Mr. Brummell
Beau Brummell From “Eccentric Personages,” 1864 By W. Russell It is a solemn truth that every death-bed is the final scene of a great […]
Opposition & Revolt
The Dandy From “The Painter of Modern Life,” 1863 By Charles Baudelaire Translation by P.E. Charvet The wealthy man, who, blasé though he may be, […]
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 […]
King Of Fashion
Beau Brummell From “Miscellaneou Works Vol 1: Habits And Men” By John Doran, 1857 The Distinction of Nash was his impertinence; the characteristic of Orlando […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
All Hallow’s Eve
At a shopping mall near you, on a cool autumn night when all the world was fast asleep, there suddenly materialized a temporary pop-up shop […]
Radical Wolfe
Tom Wolfe has been gone long enough to warrant a documentary. “Radical Wolfe” debuted last week. Below, the trailer; above, portrait by Everett Raymond Kinstler.
Romeo & Internet
Romeo Coates By Max Beerbohm, 1896 Even now Bath glories in his legend, not idly, for he was the most fantastic animal that ever stepped upon […]
Idle Talk
Since its founding in 2004, Dandyism.net has kept track of the colorful comments made behind our backs for all the world to see on the […]
Man Of Flowers
“Reginald slid a carnation of the newest shade into the buttonhole of his latest lounge coat and surveyed the results with approval. ‘I am just […]
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 […]