The Beaux Window
Who could ask for a more ornate frame... for a portrait of purest vanity? Envisage, if you will, a gaggle of grown men, sat snarking at almost anyone who dared pass before their gaze. A fashion jury of Regency London who would gather in the bow window of White's Club . The most tailored of the Haut Ton - a clique whose bizarre authority led even the Duke of Wellington to harbour "a high opinion of that mysterious and terrible tribunal." (1) So what severity of focus could have scorched those strolling, or scurrying, along fashionable St. James's street? Well, there may have been a bemused observer among those pitiless governors of Regency style. And this eventually led to Beau Brummell (and cohorts) becoming victims of an epic-length satire! The work of an equally observant wit, Henry Luttrell, whom Byron described as "the best sayer of good things, and the most epigrammatic conversationist I ever met". Luttrell's poetic volume 'Advice to Julia&