Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… to the emergence of a British model of sociability in a decisive way. Through his conviviality, his influence on dress and manners, he participated in the forging of a refined and polite nation. This entry attempts to assess his … an eccentric. He always wore an expensive ‘cream-coloured beaver' ( Anstey, letter XII: l.96) and a tricorn hat: ‘his dress was tawdry, tho’ not perfectly genteel ‘ (Goldsmith 49). He was not a ‘Beau Garçon’ as ‘his person was clumsey, … ‘Wit, flattery, and fine cloaths, he used to say, were enough to debauch a nunnery’ (Goldsmith 73–74). He established a dress code previously unknown to Bath, and had a particular aversion to white aprons, swords and boots (Goldsmith 36–38; …
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