The Dandy : A People's History of Sartorial Splendour
The Dandy: A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour challenges the traditional notion of dandyism as an upper-class phenomenon, expanding it to include working-class figures like clerks, shop assistants, and labourers. The text reveals how dandyism becomes a widespread cultural movement, one that Beau Brummell sparks in the early nineteenth century and that continues through the 1960s mod culture
