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Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… texts: T. H. Lister’s novel Granby (1826), with its dandy Trebeck, which Brummell actually read, as well as Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Pelham (1828) 6 portray dandy characters, as does Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). … in Le Peintre de la Vie moderne (1863). 6 . Thomas Henry Lister, Granby: A Novel, 3 vols. (London: Colburn, 1826); Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, 3 vols. (London: Colburn, 1828); Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891). 7 . Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Du Dandysme et de George Brummell (Caen: B. Mancel, 1845). 8 . …
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Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… assistance, prevail'd over ' em, we very complaisantly pursued the French thro ' many extravagant varieties; but when a war became necessary with France, we disus'd their exotick modes, and our fashions were commodious and graceful. Beauty, … a beautiful aspect; a just stature; and a genius to dispose the habit according to its proper attitude. … "... when a war became necessary with France, we disus'd their exotick modes, and our fashions were commodious and graceful." … Dress …
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Gentleman's Magazine on Dress (1731) [ Concepts ]
… World , that Richness and Finery of Apparel have been introduc'd with Luxury , Debauchery, and Excess. In Alexander's War against Darius , the Persian Soldiers were bedeck'd with Gold and Jewels , Silk and Embroidery ; while the Greeks in …
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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… is that they are easily emulated. In her study of women’s clothing in the eighteenth century, Jennie Batchelor warns that fashion presented a threat to the social hierarchy, as ‘both a means of self-expression and a potential … similarly ranked ladies. So while dressing oneself could be a creative endeavour, it came with a necessity for social awareness. The skill of revealing and concealing what one seemed fit to do in particular social company meant that certain … the quality of a person’s character from their dress, particularly if it was second-hand, was not entirely straightforward. The Gentleman’s Magazine , however, offered some advice on the subject: ‘ As Dress has a strong Influence on the …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Square', Wikimedia Commons, 1784. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Malton, ‘The Royal Crescent’, 1780, WikiCommons. Image Thomas … Celtic past (Cossic, Bath , 64-74). In their own way, the Woods participated in the forging of the nation. They were aware, like Ralph Allen, the City Mayor in 1742 and also a visionary entrepreneur, of the new needs of the emerging … formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his notebook that ‘Bath was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe’. See Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (ed.), Haydn in England, 1791-1795 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 266. 26 . Adam …
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