In fact, it allegedly took him hours to be so artfully and pretentiously disheveled.ĭandyism was concerned with physical appearance, a façade of leisure and privilege, and the “cult of the self”-and Beau Fucking Brummell was the king of the dandies. Brummel made an art of (as Robert Pattinson once so evocatively phrased it) pretentious dishevelment. (That's a fop they're different things.) A dandy was the Regency equivalent of that guy who in the '80s and '90s could be found apathetically lounging on doorjambs at parties, smoking a cigarette and doing an excellent and studied performance of cynical carelessness. You've probably heard the term before, but I would bet dollars to donuts that you think “dandy” means bright colors, lots of lace and gilt, and a big powdered wig. Back in Regency England, there was this guy called Beau Brummell, and he's the reason we can't have nice things.īeau Brummell was a dandy.
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