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The female dandy phenomenon picked up with the advent of the flapper. Explains Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of the Museum at FIT, “Coco Chanel is thought of as the first female dandy, all in black and very androgynous. In the ‘20s, which is Chanel’s great first period, there certainly were a lot of women wearing ...

A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, ... In the 12th century, cointerrels (male) and cointrelles (female) emerged, based upon coint, [33] a word applied to things skillfully made, later indicating a person of beautiful dress and refined speech. [34]

"Dandyism is a sunset; like the declining daystar, it is glorious, without heat and full of melancholy." (Baudelaire [1863] 1995) Senem Yazan explores the little-acknowledged realm of the female dandy that existed in Paris and London from the 1840's to the 1920's. The black princess of elegance: The emergence of the female dandy by: Senem…

The Female Dandy The emergence of the female dandy was to coincide with the downfall of Oscar Wilde . In Joe Lucchesi's essay "The Dandy in Me," he cites the American artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Romaine Brooks as notable female dandies of the period along with Brooks's London-based circle of friends—in particular the aristocrat Lady ...

Following World War I, women began breaking down fashion's gender norms. With her tuxedo and top hat, blues singer and entertainer Gladys Bentley epitomized how women in the Harlem Renaissance ...

The female dandy, although largely unrepresented, remains culturally resonant to this day. The suit-wearing British painter Gluck inspired S.S. Daley’s spring 2025 collection; That same season ...

Following World War I, women began breaking down fashion’s gender norms. With her tuxedo and top hat, blues singer and entertainer Gladys Bentley epitomized how women in the Harlem Renaissance blurred gender lines and adopted more masculine styles of dress. ... whimsically tailored suits and ornate bow ties personify the dandy style.

The female dandy suit appeared as the regular consequence of the total democratization of fashion and some emancipation of the society: women of the 20s wore trousers along with men, hats and even single eye-glass, were keen on sports and drove automobiles. On the whole, the end of the World War I promoted the change of position of ladies in ...

Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–1820 must have been a strange race.

The female dandy is a fascinating figure, especially when located in the context of the ongoing demands of postfeminism. But until now, studies on female dandyism have been limited. Weidhase addresses this gap, presenting the first in-depth theorisation of the female dandy in popular music. The result is a valuable, timely, and compelling ...

Her interpretations on the dandy shows how mutable and fluid the persona is, as Ball name-checks a series of female inspirations for the ‘look;’ the outré trouser suits and cropped bobs ...

The Dandy archetype has provoked much excitement, eroticism and derision for many an age. The word invokes a figure whose care for themselves, their appearance and most importantly when they appear and who they’re with has been the subject of much scorn and fascination since the term was coined in the late 18th century.

One of the least known elements is that the dandy movement was not only masculine. The same dandy ideas were advocated by a number of women. Charles Dickens himself cites the “dandizettes” of the time.Another name was “quaintrelle“, which comes from Quaint, meaning good taste in speech and dress.And although our beloved Mary, for us one of the greatest dandy women of the 20th century ...

A perfect example of the fact that the style of dandy can decorate a woman, in the 20-ies of the last century showed Marlene Dietrich . Today, the male context in the female dandy style points to elegance and refinement in the image. A characteristic set of the image in the dandy style includes a white shirt, pantsuit.

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Consider the dominant features of the dandy style: Use men’s clothing and accessories that fit perfectly on a female figure. Things should not be huge or baggy. Restrained color palette. Black, beige, brown, gray, golden, ashen – these are the shades that prevail in the style of the dandy. The simple cut of clothes.

Female dandy. Related: dandy - femme fatale - demimondaine - vamp - women - diva. Woman is the opposite of the dandy. Therefore she inspires horror. --Charles Baudelaire La Calavera Catrina (before 1913) - Jose Guadalupe Posada, frequently dubbed in English as the female dandy. The term dandy was first attested in the English language c.1780 ...

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Female Dandies. The female counterpart is a quaintrelle. In the 12th century, cointerrels (male) and cointrelles (female) emerged, based upon coint, indicating a person of beautiful dress and refined speech.By the 18th century, coint became quaint, indicating elegant speech and beauty.Middle English dictionaries note quaintrelle as a beautifully dressed woman (or overly dressed), but do not ...

Departing from the French poet Charles Baudelaire’s reading, this study attempts to demonstrate that the male dandy, who attached great importance to his public image, turning his body into a work of art in the way he posed, dressed and behaved, was exploited in various forms, by various groups of women between the 1840s and 1920s.