Category Archive: Dandyism
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…
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…
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…
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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