By the end of the century, however, the dandy was emerging as something more.
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Malkovich's involvement with the world of fashion is nothing new for the dandy actor.
Sir Paul McCartney has fulfilled a "personal ambition" by being immortalised in The Dandy.
But even the devil-may-care pages of the Dandy have been unable to resist changing values.
In two weeks time, The Dandy will publish its last paper edition and focus on a new online version.
Throughout its 75 years, The Dandy's artists and writers have always strived to keep the comic's characters and plotlines relevant.
Now the Dandy can be assured of a permanent place in the record books, and one which is unlikely to be bettered.
Published in Dundee, The Dandy is one of the world's longest-running children's comics, launching characters such as Bananaman, Korky the Cat and Beryl the Peril.
Imraan Peerzada's Zar Gul is every inch the dandy outlaw-about-town: a smoldering gaze, bouncing quiff, tweaked mustache and the smile of a shark on the prowl.
Not only that, but he would browse the faintly carbolic-smelling columns of the British Medical Journal, and scoff a hundred cow pies with the Dandy's Desperate Dan.
At the end of it, Wainewright emerges from his appalling hardships with a measure of genuine dignity that goes deeper than the affected hauteur of the dandy.
Sutherland, who also draws the Bash Street Kids for the Beano, is not personally fond of the Dandy redesign, particularly because it has fewer comic strip pages in it.
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So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.
The new Dandy is about being brighter and livelier, says Heggie, as well as feeling much cooler, and being printed on better paper.
Now, from the dense, reverberant dance grind of "Heavy" to the gentle "Dandy Life" and the acoustically brooding "Needs, " the band's fourth album sustains the band's commitment to rock and electric guitars.
The figurines of the characters - made famous by The Beano and Dandy comics - were taken along with a number of Royal Doulton pieces.
There was a similar crisis in 1997 when Desperate Dan sailed off with the Spice Girls after striking oil and temporarily retired from the pages of Dandy.
Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?
Keep in mind, however, that all continues to not be 100% fine and dandy in the U.S. housing market.
Larry and his son Phillip are the owners of Plum Dandy, a frozen yogurt shop in Saratoga Springs' historic downtown.
This was dandy for the purchasers, but dotty of the sellers.
All of this fixation with prestige I suppose is fine and dandy, but the problem is that prestige is emphatically not the equivalent of quality.
They ensure that every small-town dandy can flaunt the finest threads.
"The Blue Moon Saloon, " my brother Layton and I used to say while we floated in the creek, our noses pointed pompously upward, as if only gentry frequented the establishment, though in retrospect the opposite was more probable: these days, Divide was a town of holdout ranchers, fanatical fishermen, and the occasional Unabomber, not dandy fops with a mind for parlor games.
But take my word for it: the basic idea is entirely peachy and dandy.
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Although the concrete supports of its viaducts make dandy sites for sticking up government-propaganda posters, they do not have any railway tracks on top of them.
Samsung has already proven that S60 works just fine and dandy with a capacitive display on the i8910, so we're stoked to see where Nokia takes it.
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As a dandy New York Times article explained, the state and its capital of Calcutta were in living memory the industrial heart of India.
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