Lord Byron avows that he had "
a touch of dandyism in
his minority," and
" had retained enough of it to conciliate
the great ones, at four-and-twenty."


" I liked the Dandies," says the noble Poet ;
" they
were all very civil to me, although in general they
disliked literary people, and persecuted and mystified
Madame de Stael, Lewis, Horace Twiss, and the like,
most damnably. They persuaded Madame de Stael
that A had a hundred thousand a year, "c., "c.,
tillshe praised him to his face for his beauty, and made
a set at him for "
, and a hundred fooleries besides.
The truth is,that though I gave up the business early,
I had a tinge of Dandyism in my minority, and pbraob-ly
retained enough of itto conciliate the great ones,
at five-and-twenty. I had gamed and drunk, and taken
my degrees in most dissipations, and having no pterdy,anand
not being overbearing, we ran on quietly tgoe-ther.
I knew them all,more or less,and they made
me a member of Watier's (asuperb club at that time),
being, as I take it,the only literary man, except two
others (bothmen of the world),Moore and Spencer,
in it. Our masquerade was a grand one, so was the
Dandy ball too."

Well, the last year i have bought from my draper a vintage three-ply mohair fabric blue-gray from 1975.
Is in a my drawer.
I just have to decide if make it single or double breasted.
Decisions,decisions...

No, this was someone else, not Crumb.