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 […]
Month: June 2023
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]