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#1 2006-04-28 01:35:57
- Incroyable
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French dandies.
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#2 2006-04-28 15:49:36
- Hartmut vR
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Re: French dandies.
I agree that the French Dandy does not receive the attention. Perhaps that it because the French man's style is very much a mixing of the English and Italian. BUt I will state that I think the French man will today has a very nice look, at least in Paris. I enjoy looking at the Monsieur magazine (as I cannot read it) and find many dappeur individuals.
Now, I will challenge you Mr Incroyable, to post photo of a German Dandy, at least one not wearing Trachten! I believe you cannot do it!
#4 2006-04-28 20:02:21
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Re: French dandies.
Well, you almost did it. Berger is also an Austrian, but that is ok. Austrians were always possess more of a flair with the Eastern influences. I am originally from Bavaria also and we are more in common with Austrians than Prussians or Germans from the North.
It is interesting also that one of Berger's early role was to portray Ludwig II (and to carry on Austrian theme, sided with Austria against Prussia).
Is that velvet worn by Ludwig in the picture? Perhaps he could be a Dandy. Very fabulous look. But I think there should be exclusion for royalty.
#5 2006-04-30 10:00:31
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Re: French dandies.
They must shop here: http://www.arnys.fr/
Has anyone experience of Arnys?
#6 2006-05-01 02:57:24
- The_Shooman
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Re: French dandies.
You seem to have a nack in bringing up wonderful old photos. Bravo incroyable! l love seeing them.
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#7 2006-05-01 08:13:47
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Re: French dandies.
I shall commission a suit:
So let it Bespoken
So let it be done!
#8 2006-05-02 01:21:57
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Re: French dandies.
Shooman, I have a small library of interesting images, notwithstanding stylish men and women.
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#11 2006-05-03 00:56:26
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Re: French dandies.
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#12 2006-05-03 01:23:54
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Re: French dandies.
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#13 2006-05-03 01:44:50
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Re: French dandies.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#16 2006-05-06 04:39:36
- The_Shooman
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Re: French dandies.
l'm quite a fan of men wearing fur coats.
#17 2006-05-06 05:11:18
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Re: French dandies.
Just me, blinking in the daylight & straying out of my Modernist ghetto...
Les Minets? French Dandies! ('Parlez Vous Nonsense' Thread)
Dandy is as Dandy does.
They may well look like crap in the only easily available photos of them, but consider what they were doing and when they were doing it.
'Against the Grain' indeed!
Going back now to the dimly lit world of Anglo Ivy Jazzers ...
... Miles ;-)
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#18 2006-05-06 06:19:41
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Re: French dandies.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#19 2006-05-06 23:53:08
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Re: French dandies.
Honoré de Balzac's contribution to male style can only be counted in his depiction of realism; otherwise, he was no fashionplate or dandy figure, and as you say it, rather disheveled and unseemly looking. He wrote over a hundred texts, which let's face it, is no obscure Latin writer or even Joris-Karl Huysmans in fitness of erudition.
I suppose none of the French Realist authors could be counted upon as style icons per se. Perhaps Stendhal.
Horace, I haven't read Gide's "Return from the USSR," however, I understand it was a very disillusioned report, which sort of alienated his left-wing fanbase. How one isn't disillusioned after returning from that Great Failed Experiment is beyond me. Sartre and Beauvoir remained Maoists as absurd as that may be.
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