The concepts masculine and feminine may have undergone steady erosion since the heyday of he-man Tarzan. Yet Tarzan was able to walk around in a mini-skirt and men who have dared to do so after him, or dress with a sense of fashion, continue to attract attention as closet-homosexuals. Abhorring this confusion, George Walden has written a book on dandyism which he argues is a deeply-rooted and a uniquely English phenomenon. Using the celebrated life-portrait of the dying Beau Brummell by Jules Barbey (included at the end of the book), he shows in this text who are today's supreme dandies and who its fops, in a way that is bound to cause controversy.
- ISBN10 1903933188
- ISBN13 9781903933183
- Publish Date 24 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gibson Square Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English