Depends what type of Dandy I think. I bought that recent photo book full of contemporary 'dandies'. Half of them are just old fruitcakes draping themselves in floral curtains and pouting to the camera. But some - Sean Crowley and Bruce Boyer spring to mind - are just very careful dressers and often look splendid. Chensvold - he looked crazed in that polo coat and a pipe. Truly as nutty as Frosty Mellor (RIP) was.

I quite quickly shed items like that Don Richards coat, 'dandy' or not.  It was just too much like this 'cosplay' my younger daughter seems to be growing out of.  One lives and learns - otherwise, where's the sense in it all?  I actually had the brass neck to wear the thing to a funeral - and a Scottish funeral at that.  All eyes were upon me.  Glad indeed to 'pare down' into jeans and polo shirts with loafers or - more so - bucks.