THE DANDY: BRUMMELL TO BEERBOHM (372 pp.)—Ellen Moers—Viking ($6). The Duke of Wellington approved of elegance, but he felt obliged to advise his splendidly uniformed Grenadier Guards that their ...
2 of 6 — Richard Dighton (1795-1880) was Robert Dighton's son. His 1823 Mirror of Fashion is a panoramic depiction of 53 "dandies of the day." 3 of 6 — In his youth, even before he cavorted with Beau ...
"Philip Mann chronicles the relationship of dandyism and the emerging cultural landscape of modernity via portraits of Regency England's Beau Brummel - the first dandy - and six twentieth-century ...