Juni 21, 2010
von Melanie Grundmann
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Dandies and fops have always been ephemeral productions, and the former are now extinct, or sobered down into gentlemanly, well-dressed men. Within the last ten years, we have had some stars of considerable lustre in each department, but few survive … Weiterlesen
Oktober 1, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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An extraordinary revolution in male costume is announced for the approaching Parisian season. Nearly forty young men of the highest fashion have agreed to introduce velvet coats, velvet shoes, and even velvet hats, for full evening dress;, a style, in … Weiterlesen
September 14, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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There is a noble German ballad, written (if we remember rightly}- by a certain Von Zedlitz (Powder), which describes, with all the weird imagination of a Doré, how at the twelfth hour of the night a little ghostly drummer once … Weiterlesen
August 3, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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The races took place on the Sunday afternoon, as Rosalie had told us they would; and, by the emptiness of the streets, the world and his wife no doubt went to them. Full to the brim were the hotels when … Weiterlesen
August 3, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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One of Lord William’s acquaintances was Ball Hughes (the “Golden Ball” of some forty years ago), who died at Paris very recently. Hughes’ impulsive nature more than once brought himself and his friend into odd scrapes, one of which may … Weiterlesen
Juni 18, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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I was at Eton with my late friend Ball Hughes, whose recent death was so much lamented in Paris. He was known at Eton by the name of Ball only; but the year before he came of age, he took … Weiterlesen
Juni 16, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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Ball Hughes was perfect in all the “clap trap ” speeches, but knew not a ghost of a line of any other part; Wombwell had scarcely looked at the book ; and I had devoted so much of my time … Weiterlesen
Juni 8, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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At St. Germains, Mr. Edward Hughes Ball Hughes, who had long resided in that suburban retreat. “In the days of George IV. Ball Hughes, or ‘Golden Ball,’ as he was called, was one of the trading dandies of a period … Weiterlesen
Februar 20, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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Eine große Epoche in der Geschichte des Englischen fashionables Lebens machte das Auftreten des Prinzen von Wales, nachmaligen Königs Georg IV. um das Jahr 1780. Ein solcher Aufwand, eine solche Eleganz, eine solche Verschwendung wird wohl nie wieder in England … Weiterlesen
Februar 20, 2009
von Melanie Grundmann
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(Fortsetzung.) Zu jener Zeil, d. i. in den achtziger Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts, herrschte in der ganzen Welt als Morgenkostüm der Frack nebst ledernen Panlalons und Hessischen Stiefeln mit Quasten; dabei setzte man einen Vorzug darein, die Pantalons so überaus … Weiterlesen