June 4, 2011
“Deco Dandies…self (left) and friend in vintage 1920s tails and topper at the Hawkesbay Club in Napier, NZ.”
I love it when people take no quarter while being fancy! How delectable. You are both jawdropping!
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June 10, 2011
More Annie, during the height of the military jackets phase. This is certainly the best military jacket I’ve ever seen. I love that it’s got tails.
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July 11, 2011
famous writers (and occasional lovers) Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney, ca. 1900, From Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends
Natalie Barney’s first love, before Romaine, was the devastating and tragic Symbolist poet Renée Vivien, as authentic a femme dandy as there ever was.
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July 13, 2011
Gladys Bentley was a popular Blues singer during The Harlem Renaissance. Bentley dressed in her trademark tuxedo and top hat. She flaunted her sexual orientation and reputation as a ‘bulldagger’ or butch lesbian. She openly flirted with women in the audience.
It really takes someone special to pull off an all-white ensemble like that. I greatly enjoyed her spotlight on afterellen.com.
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July 31, 2011
That disdainful expression, combined with the way her manicured hands are fingering the glass, earns this picture a post.
As well as cufflinks; there is a lamentable dearth of cufflinks on my blog.
From androgyny.
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August 1, 2011
This does not look to me like a disfigured stalker in an opera’s basement in the very slightest, but nonetheless: Best. Phantom. Ever. And I love that ridiculous mask.
(I’ve completely reverted to fangirl mode. If you need me I will be fanning myself in a corner somewhere.)
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August 23, 2011
Florence Welch by Karl Lagerfeld
Checks for the pompadour and the foppish jacket — which really borders on surrealism in its excesses. The way the jacket complements whatever she’s wearing at her neck is especially marvelous.
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September 1, 2011
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Tipping the Velvet Starring Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes [2002]
And there was a movie made of the book! A movie of very questionable quality! But with much by way of gorgeous costumes and pulpy racy fun!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpikslySMa1qazs5qo1_500.jpg)
Tipping the Velvet
Starring Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes
[2002]
And there was a movie made of the book! A movie of very questionable quality! But with much by way of gorgeous costumes and pulpy racy fun!
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September 30, 2011
Once again, Merle Oberon. The costume is inaccessibly perfect, of course, but her poise, pose, and expression are the standards by which I set my dandies.
From a photoset I saw on fyandrogyny.
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December 25, 2011
GOOD PEOPLE OF TUMBLR if I may just have a moment of your time, I wonder if we might talk about the suit coat I purchased this afternoon and how sweetjesuseverlovingamazing it is.
WHY YES WE CAN. THAT, MY DEAR DANDY, IS A SUITCOAT FOR THE AGES.
