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There’s A New Star In Heaven Tonight 23 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
On this day in 1926 Rudolph Valentino died at the age of 31. A hundred thousand people lined the streets of New York for his funeral. Shortly after, singer Vernon Dalhart crooned these words: Valentin...
Fast Eddie: The Growing Accessories Collection Of Edward Armah 2 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
When I first met Edward Armah a few years ago at a small menswear trade show, his sole product was a pocket circle. Armah had figured out that if you take a pocket square and make it, well, round, all...
I Am Dandy Due Out In Fall 3 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams’ book based on Callahan’s “Dandy Portraits” photo series has been given the title (by the publisher) “I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman.” Elegant gentle...
Ideal Husband: Dressing For A Summer Wedding 28 Jun 2013 | 10:51 pm
HeSpokeStyle.com offers the above outfit in a post entitled “How To Dress For A Summer Wedding.” Ah, but why not dress like this every day?
Remembrance of Dandies Past: Charles Haas 22 Jun 2013 | 12:04 am
Our long-lost correspondent, Nick Willard (“The Lion in Winter” himself), wrote to us the other day with a brief feuilleton. Willard has been reading a “Swan’s Way”—that’s right, one “n”—a book about ...
Late In His Loafers 4 Jun 2013 | 01:04 am
Last week Nathaniel Adams hosted a soireé in New York in which various members of Dandyland, including folks from the Rhode Island School of Design’s new dandy exhibit, read from classic dandy literat...
The Boston Globe & WSJ On “Artist/Rebel/Dandy” 16 May 2013 | 04:27 pm
Yesterday The Boston Globe reported on the “Artist/Rebel/Dandy” exhibit, which the Rhode Island School Of Design somehow managed to pull off without us. Still, we managed to get a few contrarian words...
Grey Poupon: The Lost Footage 21 Mar 2013 | 04:03 am
American readers of a certain age will remember the old TV commercial for Grey Poupon, a Dijon mustard now made by food-biz megalith, Kraft. (“So fine, it’s even made with white wine.” Fancy that!) In...
Beau Brummell: Creator of Cool 15 Feb 2013 | 03:09 am
In this video, Sackville Street tailors Meyer & Mortimer appear on the BBC’s The One Show in 2012. Although it does make a few errors—we shall leave it to you, dear reader, to figure where they lie—it...
‘A Touch of the Dandy:’ Five Questions for Dandy Author Nigel Rodgers. 8 Feb 2013 | 07:07 am
The first new survey book on dandyism to come out in several years has recently appeared on these occidental shores. It’s Nigel Rodgers’ “The Dandy: Peacock or Enigma” and, so far as we’ve read of it,...
