herringbonekid
I'll Lock Up
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to me, there's always something about the modern dandy which harks back to the golden age of dandyism: 1800-1830.
this is the period when the Regency streets sprung up in west London and wealthy young bachelors would have lived in apartments in the same area.
there's the idea of the dandy as a young (self-obsessed) gentleman of leisure with nothing much better to do than shop for fashionable clothing and accessories.
Burlington and Piccadilly arcades in London were centres for this - and supposedly had brothels upstairs accessed by staircases within the shop (still there today... the staircases, not the brothels). Savile Row wasn't established as a tailoring street yet.
there's the idea of finery associated with the Regency dandy. he's a connoisseur who enjoys the finest workmanship and materials, and wants to show them off in the right company.
even if modern dandyism doesn't go for the Regency style, and its modern day proponents don't quite have the bank balance, it seems to still hanker for the luxuriousness and lifestyle associated with the period.
this is the period when the Regency streets sprung up in west London and wealthy young bachelors would have lived in apartments in the same area.
there's the idea of the dandy as a young (self-obsessed) gentleman of leisure with nothing much better to do than shop for fashionable clothing and accessories.
Burlington and Piccadilly arcades in London were centres for this - and supposedly had brothels upstairs accessed by staircases within the shop (still there today... the staircases, not the brothels). Savile Row wasn't established as a tailoring street yet.
there's the idea of finery associated with the Regency dandy. he's a connoisseur who enjoys the finest workmanship and materials, and wants to show them off in the right company.
even if modern dandyism doesn't go for the Regency style, and its modern day proponents don't quite have the bank balance, it seems to still hanker for the luxuriousness and lifestyle associated with the period.
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