Category Archive: Dandyism
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Gone Wilde
There is such a wealth of Oscar Wilde ephemera surrounding his 1882 tour across America out there. Where to begin? Two items recently sifted to the top of my files. I loved this newspaper clipping, printed that year: “Frightened at…
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Tick, Tock
How timely! All synched up with the launch of All the Time in the World—the Frick’s exhibition on clocks, “Precision and Splendor.” The French Gilt-Brass Table Clock circa 1530 is pretty amazing, as is the enameled Pendant Watch (1660) with…
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Bau, bau….
It’s nearly Mardi Gras already, so it’s high time that I gave a nod to the Venetian masquers of old, who eerily drift through Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. For over half the year, from early October through Lent, the nobles…
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Tip Top
Plenty of stylish types have worn top hats—an entry in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite—over the years. But did anyone ever wear a top hat with more panache than Marlene Dietrich did? She made her American movie debut in 1930 in…
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