Die Beaux der Regency
Die Beaux der Regency, das sind die Dandys im Gefolge von George IV. Zu ihnen zählen Lord Alvanley, Charles Howard 11th Duke of Norfolk, Lord Bedford, Beau Petersham, Sir Lumley Skeffington, ‘Poodle’...
View ArticleThe genuine Dandy (1820)
All this, my dear friend, I submit to your own good sense and deliberate consideration. In the meanwhile, I shall endeavour to enable you to judge with more precision of the advantages of my... The...
View ArticleLetter from a Roué
I have some naked thoughts that rove about, And loudly knock to have their passage out. I HAVE sometimes looked at the outside of your book, as it lay on our table at WHITE’S,... The post Letter from a...
View ArticleLord Petersham
Lord P-r-m, the delicate dandy. Laced up in stays to show his waist, And highly rouged to show his taste, His whiskers meeting ‘neath his chin, With gooseberry eye and ghastly grin, With mincing... The...
View ArticleBall Hughes
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... The post Ball Hughes appeared...
View ArticleHyde Park
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... The...
View ArticleMen and Women of Fashion: Waldegrave
A Few years ago, a clever satire was indited by a person every way qualified for the task, entitled ‘The Man of Ton,’ professing to elucidate the mysterious nature of that remarkable animal, while......
View ArticleNo black neck-cloths admitted!
As I have alluded to the elaborate toilet, it may be as well to say, that my costume consisted of a blue evening coat, with black velvet collar, and the regimental button made in... The post No black...
View ArticleThomas H. Duncombe remembers the Dandies
The dandies of that day were as various in character as in capacity; they included persons of the highest rank, as well as individuals whose pretensions to gentle blood were more than equivocal. The......
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