Dandyism
ダンディズム / 1790s– / Style / Fashion History
The aesthetic that makes a work of the self through tailoring, cleanliness and restraint — origin of the plain suit and of self-assertion through dress.
Perfect tailoring / Restrained color / The cleanliness of white linen / Obsession with detail
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and exemplary cases · Extracting principles that transfer beyond dress
- Type
- Observe the letters and signs of the era and community referred to
- Composition
- Translate silhouette and proportion into composition
- Material
- Verify the material conditions: cloth, tailoring, the wearer's body
- Caution
- Not reducible to wearing expensive clothes. The refusal of excess and the discipline of self are the core.
- Further study
- Beau Brummell / Baudelaire on the dandy / the lineage of Black dandyism