Dandysme

Historisches, Kulturelles und Literarisches zum Dandy

Dezember 26, 2008
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Proposed New Bond Street University

AN EXAMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR A DEGREE. We understand from very excellent authority, that an University is about to be instituted in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, where the old-fashioned qualifications of classical and scientific learning are to be … Weiterlesen

Dezember 22, 2008
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Dress, Dandies, Fashion, &c.

It is amusing to walk down Regent street in the height of the London season, and see the changes that each year produces in the costume of the promenaders; to speculate on the impression the fashions of the day would … Weiterlesen

Dezember 1, 2008
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Sketches from the Portfolio of a Man of Fashion lately deceased – No. II

The Philosophy of Fashion EVERY rational being must acknowledge the supremacyof fashion over the civilised portion of the world, but few could point out the peculiar principles in human nature most strongly affected by its influence. Pride, ambition, and vanity, … Weiterlesen