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Great Dandies
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"To speak now of a Beau or a Buck or a Blood, an Incroyable or a Dandy, is to evoke a smile. The man who first used starch for a neckcloth is dismissed with a sneer, while the man who invented the patent machine for taking out potato eyes is hailed as a benefactor of his country. Let who will erect statues to the useful citizens who create useless appliances, who discover a later and dryer form of breakfast food, who add fifty-seven new varieties of pickles to the already superfluous fifty-seven. I shall save my pennies to buy a hand-carved snuff-box and, having bought it, remember between sneezes the men who regarded living as an art; possibly, since life seemed to them useless, as a fine art"

Not that there is any relation to this article, but you might get a kick out of reading about the history of Brooks Brothers

An article about Beau Brummell can be read HERE

Click here to get a sense of men's slow and subtle slide from appropriate business attire in the office to slovenly sportswear.

     


Remembering the Golden Age of the Dandy  (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1920)

Remembering the Golden Age of the Dandy  (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1920)

Remembering the Golden Age of the Dandy  (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1920)

Remembering the Golden Age of the Dandy  (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1920)

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