Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
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The Dandy's Trial - A Book Review
Wild's trial reinforces associations between queerness and dressiness that have been building since the 18th century. After his disgrace, after his death in the first decades of the 20th century, if you want to be a dandy, you can be, but you have to think quite carefully how you do it. And there are some people who struggle to reach a balance between their interest in clothes and their interest in men for example.
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