...masculinity. As Carlyle famously defines it in Sartor Resartus: '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...

...they occupy cheap positions. Like the dandy, whom Carlyle describes as " a clothes-wearing man, — a man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes, — every faculty of whose soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object,"...

...taste. Carlyle gives a good contemporary description of the dandy: 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,...

...Dandy Thomas Carlyle famously defined the early-nineteenth-century dandy2 as "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 the wearing of Clothes...

...the theme of clothing from Sartor Resartus; there he defines the dandy as "a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes" (3.10.200). The passage that follows here contains several allusions to dandyism (see the next two...

...Madame, sister of Charles II. This curious li ttle mannikin and dandy (' A dandy is a clotheswearing man, whose trade, office and existence consists in...was no coward) than allow his face to be sunburnt or in any way injure his complexion. Perhaps the following receipt, dated 1599, he knew and used, as it...

...any means a dandy. "A dandy," saith the scholiast on Teufelsdrockh, " is a clothes-wearing man- — a man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of clothes." None such was the ex-captain of the Tenth. Hessians and -pantaloons, or top-boots and buckskins, with...