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Parisian costumes: The dandies of Paris in 1831. A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies. A dandy could be a self-made man both in person and persona, who emulated the aristocratic style of life regardless of his middle-class origin, birth, and background, especially during the late 18th and early ...

Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. DOI: 10.7591/9781501720437. Treats the dandy as a central figure in tensions surrounding Victorian norms of masculinity, particularly as they inform constructions of intellectual labor. Throughout the period the dandy incarnates suspicions of ...

A person known only by the initials J.L. wrote a letter in 1819 to Mr. Urban of the Gentlemen’s Magazine offering a possible explanation for the word dandy. J.L. noted that the source of the word was uncertain and suggested that it was somehow related to “dandipart” or “dandiprat” and that both words were terms of “reproach and ridicule.”

In Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times, Chancellor marks the world of the dandies as "...that portion of St. James's, bounded by Piccadilly and Pall Mall, St. James's Street and Waterloo Place, was the ne plus ultra of fashionable life..." Obviously with a mention of Waterloo Place, this puts this area a touch later than the Regency, but St. James's did mark the center of the fashionable ...

Since the 18th century, satirists have had a fun time mocking dandies. In Hogarth to Cruickshank: social change in graphic satire, 1967, (Walker Publishing) Mary Dorothy George classified 3 different kinds of print-shop dandies: 1.) the notorious dandy, 2) the effeminate dandy, and 3) dandies who were slavish in their imitation of Beau Brummel.

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highly admired dandies became signifiers of the gentleman. In the light of turbulent political events on the continent and ideas of romanticism, for many, “dandyism marked the death of kings, and ... Victorian writers and intellectuals also felt the need to redefine the notion of manliness. From the 1830s onward, the middle-class

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. ... Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City ...

Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity by James Eli Adams Dandies by James Laver Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes by Joel H. Kaplan and Sheila Stowell Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II by Philip Mansel

But there were others who, beginning life as dandies, are now remembered for other reasons that the successful tying of a neck cloth. Byron made his first appearance in London as a dandy rather than as a poet. Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, was a member of Watier’s, the club most frequented of the dandies, while Sheridan of “The Rivals ...

in St. James's Street was prodigious; dandies were struck dumb with envy, and washerwomen miscarried. No one could conceive how the effect was produced, - tin, card, a thousand contrivances were attempted, and innumerable men cut their throats in vain experiments; the secret, in fact,

Dandies first appeared in the 1790s, and although they may have been little more than clothes-wearing men, by the Regency period many earned at spot at a special table inside an exclusive London gentleman’s club on St. James Street, known as White’s. This special table was located directly in front of a large bow window and became known as ...

Victorian Literature and Culture Article contents. Abstract; References; Dandy. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2023. James Eli Adams [Opens in a new window] Show author details James Eli Adams* Affiliation: Columbia University, New York, United States.

THE DANDY Dandy is a name for a man who pays great attention to dress and fashion and often dresses with a flamboyant style. The term was first used in the late eighteenth century, but became better defined in the early nineteenth century. At first, "dandy" referred to a group of trendsetting young aristocrats in England. Source for information on The Dandy: Fashion, Costume, and Culture ...

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 ... Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (2003) notes this evolution in the latter 19th century: "...or dandizette, although the term was increasingly reserved for men." In ...

The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, aristocratic pretension, theatricality ...

Wilde was one of the leading dandies of the Victorian era. Credit: CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. The Decadent Movement of the late nineteenth century advocated aesthetic refinement, the sublimity of beauty, and the absence of bourgeois morality from art. Decadent art, literature and culture transcend the realms of ordinary existence, entering ...

Dandies were usually middle-class men who would imitate the aristocratic lifestyle. Scottish philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle wrote in his book called “Sartor Resartus”, that a dandy was nothing more than “a clothes-wearing man”. And he was on to something. Beau Brummel who lived between 1778 and 1840, was the model dandy in ...

When I think of Victorian Dandies, I always think of Oscar Wilde, but Dandyism started with George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (1778-1840). Beau befriended the Prince Regent and became one of the most powerful men in England, not through birth, intelligence, or through military or academic achievements, but by simply being well dressed. ...