Dandies
Subtitle: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780814726969
Subjects: Costume; Personal appearance & beauty care; Popular culture; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Men's clothing; General; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Men's Studies - Masculinity; FASHION_HISTORY; Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Fashion; Customs & Traditions; Dandies; History
First sentence: Fashion murdered dandyism, claims Roland Barthes: To inoculate contemporary clothing with a bit of dandyism, via Fashion, was fatally to destroy dandyism itself. . . .