British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation

by Dominic Janes

Reveals how the scandalous history of fashionable men and their clothes is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality.

Well-dressed men have played a distinctive part in the cultural and political life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the British dandies provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851245596
• ISBN13: 9781851245598
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"