—-a tribe of fops,
Got ‘tween sleep and wake!

Shakspeare.

PEDIGREE OF A DANDY,
FOR 1820.

The Dandy was got by Variety out of Affectation, his Dam; Petit-Maitre, or Maccaroni, his Grand-dam; Fribble, his Great-Grand-dam; Bronze, his Great-Great-Grand-dam; Coxcomb and Fop his earliest ancestors; Impudence his uncle; his three brothers, Trick, Humbug and Fudge; and allied to the extensive families of the Shuffletons.

Indeed, this Band-box sort of a creature took so much the lead in the walks of Fashion, that the Buck was totally missing; the Blood vanished; the Tippy was not to be found; the Go was out of date; the Dash was not to be met with; and the Bang-up was without a leader, at fault, and in the back ground. In fact, the Dandy was the only Corinthian that remained triumphant, and his excellence was of such genuine quality, that all imitation was left at an immeasurable distance; but in the vulgar aera of 1824, the creature is laid aside, and Englishmen are becoming themselves again.

Quoted from: Saturday Night. Vol. 1. No. XXVII. London: Hodgson and Col, 1824: 431.