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British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation by Dominic Janes

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Book Title
British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
Publication Date
2022-03-18
ISBN
9781851245598

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bodleian Library
ISBN-10
1851245596
ISBN-13
9781851245598
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18057261909

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
British Dandies : Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Textile & Costume, Fashion & Accessories, Gender Studies, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, Social Science
Author
Dominic Janes
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-552570
Reviews
In Janes' fascinating book he takes us on a journey through the evolution of male peacockery in all its guises. Full of exquisitely researched detail, it illustrates with great charm the inextricable links between clothing, personality, and status, and reveals a world of public obsession with celebrity and image that long predates the modern age of the influencer.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
391.10941
Table Of Content
Contents List of Illustrations Chapter One, British Dandies Chapter Two, Dressing the Sexes in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter Three, A Georgian Taste for Macaroni Chapter Four, Fine and Dandy in the Regency Chapter Five, Victorians and the Aesthetic Pose Chapter Six, Fashion and Scandal in the Twentieth Century Notes Bibliography Picture Credits Index
Synopsis
Reveals how the scandalous history of fashionable men and their clothes is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality. Well-dressed men have played a distinctive part in the cultural and political life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the British dandies provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book explores that social and cultural history through a focus on three figures: the macaroni, the dandy, and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism, and the third for his perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George "Beau" Brummell, and Oscar Wilde. Illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits, and caricatures, this groundbreaking study tells the fascinating--and scandalous--story of fashionable men and their clothes., Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality., Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book - illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures - explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George 'Beau' Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality., Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural -- and even in the political -- life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book -- illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures -- explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George 'Beau' Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality. 'In Janes' fascinating book he takes us on a journey through the evolution of male peacockery in all its guises. Full of exquisitely researched detail it illustrates with great charm the inextricable links between clothing, personality and status, and reveals a world of public obsession with celebrity and image that long predates the modern age of the influencer.' -- Patrick Grant
LC Classification Number
GT1710

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