Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… elegant dressing style and mannerisms, already at a time when he was still acting as the acknowledged arbiter of taste. Brummell rose to prominence among London’s social elite very quickly. Although not born into one of the great … manner’ exclaimed: ‘Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?’ (Jesse I: 63). The anecdote exemplifies the importance of taste (the search for the ‘right’ item of clothing), Brummell’s immense power (a duke begging a commoner for a judgement of taste), and his brash, cheeky style of speech (manifested through a reply calling the duke’s power of judgement into …
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