All things Fine and DANDY

  🎵 We're Regency Rakes And each of us takes A personal pride In the thickness of hide That prevents us from seeing How vulgar we're being Without making us wince 🎵 A look at the dark side of Dandyism  –  and how being 'ape drunk' eventually became effete 🍸 https://medium.com/@nuromanca/no%C3%ABl-cowards-regency-rakes-how-britain-s-roistering-scoundrels-of-stage-took-a-century-to-sober-a106b5728ffe

  Is it really possible to be Dandy – and not feel Fine?  Lightness of spirit begets the fullest attire... To cut a carefree Dash for the Day! ✨

Something about this couple invokes the dolour of Sebastian Horsley 's day of reckoning:  "The day of the wedding dawned foul. Slowly and silently I got ready. I dressed all in white. I looked like a glass of milk. But inside I was black. Walking through the graveyard towards the chapel I felt about as hopeful as one of the tombstones. "The priest was waiting outside the church, like a ticket tout at the gates of heaven peddling his wares for four times their real worth. I shook his hand. He had a soft pale grip. I walked up the aisle. My soles clipped against stone like the tick of a death-watch beetle.  "Ev was late. I passed the time she made me linger there at the altar listing all her faults. I could have done with another hour... " Okay, you get the picture.  And can always pursue several pages of the sorry charade... in the much-missed Mr Horsley's 'unauthorised autobiography' Dandy in the Underworld (Hodder & Stoughton, 2007).   In time, ...

  It's 1980 - and the 'cult with no name' is never far from a press headline. Except nobody knows what to call them... 🧐 A look beyond the frilly shirts and foofaraw of the Blitz Kids:   https://medium.com/@nuromanca/new-romantics-or-dandy-nouveaux-277fc16f23b0

  Well it would be... if I could simply lay off the hair dye every few weeks. Still, my getup got past the pitiless quizzing glasses of Chap! 🧐 To secure a small perch in the Silver Jubilee edition - available in newsagents tomorrow: https://thechap.co.uk   Staying with matters Silver I take a look at keyboard music's lifelong touch of chromophobia, over on Medium:  Silverfox Style and the Synthpop Scene  🎹 🎵  It's all about Fading to Grey... and Revelling In It! 🖤

The Saturday Evening Post April 11 1936 edition (cover) 'Primping in Mirror'  by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) For a Dandiacal appraisal of Mr Leyendecker's influence: 'Eye For Elegance'  admits you to an erudite tour.