2015年9月16日 · From the relatively conservative (but painstakingly attentive) understated elegance of Beau Brummell to the modern day peacock Andre 3000, we take a look at our favourite Dandies from across the ages: Beau Brummell. George Bryan Brummell, AKA Beau Brummell, was a 19th-century dandy with exceptional style.

Parodied in songs such as the Kinks' 1966 single 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion', this new trend indulged the peacock in every man and gave way to an assortment of high fashion menswear boutiques such as Hung on You, John Stephen and for a brief period, Dandie Fashions.

2020年2月9日 · The trend for wearing velvet in the ‘60s (from head-to-toe suiting for men to jumpsuits and dresses for women) was an extension of the era’s Edwardian style trend beginning around 1966 when rockers like Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones were photographed sporting the “dandy peacock look” wearing secondhand Edwardian finds from London ...

2011年4月18日 · There’s no mistaking the sartorial hallmarks of a dandy. In ‘The Day of the Peacock,’ a new book by veteran fashion writer Geoffrey Aquilina Ross, dives into the habits and predilections of the...

Circulating in the overlapping worlds of fashion, music, the (newly influential) media and high society, a social group forged a bold new identity – the 'modern dandy', unashamed to wear frills, velvet and other elements previously judged to be too feminine for a man.

2022年6月12日 · Kings Road fostered many an iconic boutique in the late ’60s, the peak of England’s popular psychedelic and lavish couture so closely associated with trippy rock & roll culture. Dandie (or ...

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2024年6月19日 · The rock-remixed dandy style of the Teddy Boy subculture evolved into a mod style. Mods in turn introduced fitted pants, turtlenecks, and the iconic mop-top haircut. Between the Beatles and subsequent Bond films, British mania brought London’s Swinging 60s to fashion capitals around the world.

2013年5月22日 · Now, viewers could finally appreciate his fabulousness in full color. As the buttoned-down ’50s gave way to the unzipped ’60s, mainstream menswear caught up with Liberace’s look.

This blog is a random mix of fashion, sewing, music, movies, nostalgia and pop culture, all mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the images that I post are either scans from books and magazines I've collected over the years, or screen caps from my favorite movies.