However, a new breed of stateside man is boldly going where only dandies once dared to tread.

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Further into the entrance gallery, prints and ephemera illustrate society's response to its newborn dandies: mockery and moralizing.

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Sure he caters to downtown dandies, but he also owns multiple Ducatis and glories in his thick-as-mutton chops.

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Early dandies, denizens of the leisure class, spent buckets on personal style, investing hours to achieve an effect of spotless nonchalance.

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Divorced from each other for five years, Amanda (Kim Cattrall) and Elyot (Paul Gross), two dandies of British detachment, meet again on adjacent balconies of a Deauville hotel.

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It might be a while before stylists and cold-weather dandies renounce traditional layering, but more practical-minded types seem to be gravitating toward the single but versatile piece of outerwear.

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As a boy, Mr Mabanckou was fascinated by the dandies who returned from Paris obsessed with brand names, but the novel lampoons the idea of tailoring as a political statement.

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Behind the table and raised up as if on thrones, sit the young president, secretary, librarian and treasurer of the Union, all looking like Edwardian dandies in white tie and tails.

FORBES: Hear! Hear!