When one considers the classic dandyish modes of conveyance, the bicycle does not at first blush top the list. Rather, one first thinks of the horse (either actually ridden or merely wagered upon), f...
It’s not often one happens upon a gem in the papers, especially one with something poignant and propitious to say about the body dandiacal. Well, at least not in the papers these days, anyway. So we ...
Last night your correspondent went to the theatre to see a new play, “Maple and Vine,” put on by the American Conservatory Theater at the Curran in San Francisco. Written by Jordan Harrison and direc...
We’re not ones to fluff our own egos. We have plenty of admirers to do that for us. However, once in a while the redoubtable Junta at D.net enjoys what can only be described as a perfect storm of kud...
Dandyism.net now has an officially unofficial armorial achievement, commonly referred to as a “coat-of-arms”—you can read about the all tedious distinctions and exact terminology for yourself here i...
Hugo Jacomet of Parisian Gentleman, Paris. Courtesy, Ross Callahan. Rose Callahan is notable for, among other things, her work in creating The Dandy Portraits, in which she catalogs the “lives of exq...
You can’t watch the Academy awards. Not in person, in any case, unless you’re a seat-filler. It’s by invitation only, to Academy members, and the Academy determines the guest list. So how...
We don’t care if Brad is in Black Label, Clooney is clad in Valentino or if Woody shuffles down the red carpet in Reeboks. The actor we’ll be watching most closely at Sunday’s Oscarfest is a fictiona...
In literature, dandyish characters occasionally find cause to duel. Sword in hand, Mikhail Lermontov’s dandyish, Byronic hero, Pechorin, fights a duel on a cliff’s edge in order for the loser’s death...
Last Sunday, February 5, the people of the United States over-indulged in their annual ritual of rough spectacle, the Super Bowl. American football, which somehow split from its English parent, Rugby...
Born on 7th February 1932, today Gay Talese celebrates his 80th birthday—a suitable moment to pay tribute to this most admirable of American dandies with a Dandyism.net Lifetime Achievement Award. Ta...
An enameled American flag pin mounted on the notched lapel of an inoffensively bland dark-blue suit. That’s the sad snapshot of fashion’s influence in American politics today. D.net’s house style hi...
When serendipity knocks you have to be there to answer the door. It was a while ago when serendipity gently scratched like a hopeful paramour. Bored one afternoon I had gone to see a movie matinee at...
Faithful myrmidons will have noticed that two new articles have recently been posted to the D.net homepage, our “Dandy of the Year”—which is more like “Dandy of the Every Other Year” at this point—an...
Dandyism.net founder and erstwhile editor-in-chief, Christian “Chenners” Chensvold has cracked the code that lies at the four-point crossroads of contemporary dandyism, trad, preppy and Ivy League st...
My eyes first fell upon Luca Rubinacci while exploring Scott Schuman’s website The Satorialist. I can still remember being quite impressed by Luca’s use of color. “Now that is how you dress boldly,”...
Balzac’s “Treatise on Elegant Living” was recently given its first English translation by the newly founded Wakefield Press. I wrote this essay on it for the latest issue of The Rak...
Michael Mattis, who has previously written about Sebastian Horsley for Dandyism.net, offers this remembrance. Dealing with death is always a hard thing. Dealing with the death of someone you have wri...
In the spring of 1934, a gentleman with a neatly trimmed mustache casts an eye in the direction of the door to an office waiting room, temporarily distracting him from the copy of Esquire he’s just p...
Yesterday was the 25th annual Gatsby Summer Afternoon in the San Francisco Bay Area. The many duded-up gents give us the chance to revisit our “Who’s the Dandy?” series with our fir...
“The Passionate Spectator” columnist Robert Sacheli previously delivered a lengthy appreciation on Fred Astaire. Here, inspired by a new biography on the style icon, he takes a curtain ca...
The car owned by D.net’s founder and featured in the LA Weekly’s infamous East vs. West Coast dandy wars article is for sale. Not exactly D’Orsay’s carriage, but dandy provena...
Last month my editor at L’Uomo Vogue emailed me with the subject heading “Urgente!” She asked me to write the introductory essay for the upcoming issue, whose theme was “eccen...
Today marks the five-year anniversary of Dandyism.net. Usually our fiscal-year recap is penned by managing editor Nick Willard. He will not be addressing you this year because, like all great dandies...
“Chinese art possess no elements of beauty.” Oscar Wilde offered up that curious opinion on a San Francisco-bound ferry boat to a crowd of reporters anxious to record his first impression of the city...
After a long interruption, Dandyism.net presents the final installment of Robert Sacheli’s article on Gerald Murphy. For convenience’s sake (and to refresh your memory), we have combined ...
By Stewart Gibson “Nothing dates so quickly as the apt comment.” So wrote Osbert Lancaster, ruefully reflecting on the inevitable eclipse of his reputation as one of the leading cartoonists, wits and...
“Backstage, Karl Lagerfeld called it ‘Belle Brummel,’ referring to the English dandy Beau Brummel, who was mad for decorative frou frou.” — Suzy Menkes in the International He...
Eton, 1947.
If politics make strange bedfellows, the strangest must be the dandy and the politician. Yes, there is a long tradition of political dandyism from Alcibiades to William Pitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir S...
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