A word great—mayhap the shortened form of jack-the-great, ([http://56.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DA/DANDY.htm Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911]) the swell— was a vogue word in the period of the Napoleonic Wars. (It did produce an early appearance inside the Scottish border ballad about 1780, but probably non by having its common meaning.) A super model of the great within British society was George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (1778-1840), an associate of the Prince Regent: unpowdered, unperfumed, immaculately bathed and shaved, in a plain dark blue coat, perfectly brushed, of perfect fit, showing a lot of perfectly starched linens, perfectly freshly laundered, with an elaborately-tied cravat, he was an early celebrity from the mid-1790s, famous chiefly for being a laconic wit and a clothes-horse. While Pitt taxed powder inside 1795, Brummell got already abandoned the wig & cut his hair within the Roman fashion, "à la Brutus". Brummell led a move from either breeches to snugly-tailored dark "pantaloons"— the trousers that keep around been mainstay of men's have on in the American globe for deuce centuries. Brummell inherited the fortune of thirty thous& pounds, which he spent mostly inside costume, gambling & high residing, until he suffered the average fate of the great, & fled from either his creditors to France, and at last died around a moonstruck asylum, in Caen.

When you took his prime, though, Brummell's dicta in fashion & etiquette reigned supreme. Brummell's habits of dress & fashion were good deal imitated, especially around France where, within an unusual mixture, it became especially a rage in bohemian quarters. Humans of supplementary notable accomplishments than Brummell adopted a pose too; George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron occasionally dressed a a portion of the beau, & helped reintroduce the frilly, lace-cuffed & collared "poet shirt," & experienced his portrait painted around Albanian costume.

A great great in the 1840s was Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay, the Count d'Orsay, who had been a friend of Byron and moved in the highest London circles. A awesome great of literature is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a fiction of 1905 set during a French Revolution.

Around France a practice wwhen known per English word, as foppishness. A great was self-created. A poet Charles Baudelaire wrote that an aspiring great must develop "no profession other than elegance. . . no other status but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons. . . . The dandy must aspire to be sublime without interruption; he must live and sleep before a mirror." Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote an essay on The Anatomy of Dandyism, which was devoted in large measure to examining the career of Beau Brummell. By their elaborate care when to their costume, French bohemian dandies, such as their less swell dressed bohemian brethren, sought to convey their contempt for & superiority to bourgeois society by their dress & way of life. These are little question that the French dandies acquired a reputation for decadence. Their fancy-dress bohemianism became the major influence on the Symbolist movement in French literature during a latter section of the nineteenth century.

a great cultivated a skeptical reserve, to such extremes that the novelist George Meredith, no great himself, was of the opinion that "Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."

A female equivalents of dandies must exist as surfed for in the demimonde. An extravagant paramour rather Cora Pearl might be considered the female great. A diva might also exist as considered the female analog.

A 1890s provided many fitly sheltered settings for foppishness: a poets Algernon Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, the Western creative person James McNeill Whistler, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Max Beerbohm, Robert de Montesquiou, the great world health organization inspired Marcel Proust's Baron de Charlus. Around Italy Gabriele d'Annunzio and Carlo Bugatti exemplified the artistic bohemian dandyism at the turn of the 20th century. A 20th century got less patience by having foppishness: a Prince of Wales, briefly Edward VIII was something of a great, & it did non facilitate his public appeal. Still George Walden, in his essay ''World health organization's the Great?'', points to Noel Coward, Andy Warhol and Quentin Crisp as examples of dandies of the modern era.

A usual have of the word "dandy" present is in the sentence "Well that's just dandy" (& universally requires this formulaic structure), meaning "Well that's really fine", "Well that's great".

Quotations
"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well: so that the others dress to live, he lives to dress...And now, for all this perennial Martyrdom, and Poesy, and even Prophecy, what is it that the Dandy asks in return? Solely, we may say, that you would recognise his existence; would admit him to be a living object; or even failing this, a visual object, or thing that will reflect rays of light..."

- A Dandiacal Person from either Seamster Resartus by Thomas Carlyle