The Return of the Dandy
For years now we claim in our style guide that the dandy-look in tailormade suits never disappeared. In the past years the Brittania-lovers amongst our clientele naturally stood by their high, narrow pants, with perfectly fitting tailormade jackets, their deep purple velvet tailormade suits, their tailormade dinner jackets, their lavishly tweed 3-piece suits. Deliciously dandy, with pipe, silk handkerchief and festive tie and therefore included in the Possen Style Guide.
But now the experts say the dandy-look is back in fashion. Even a renowned Dutch newspaper in the past weekend wrote that the British dandy-style sets the tone. Who cares? In the Possen-collection the dandy-style never was gone and as always there is a choice out of countless suitable dandy-qualities. We just love it!
The upper Briton Beau Brummel, the English flamboyant 19th-century writer Charles Dickens, the 19th-century poet, dandy and adventurer Lord Byron and also the in 1972 deceased Duke of Windsor are the inspirators for the true dandy. Beau Brummel claimed that he needed 5 hours per day to dress himself and had his boots polished with champagne. Five hours seems extravagant to us (after all one also has to work for being able to pay for those tailormade suits), but we like the polishing with champagne!
According to the dandies in our clientele the Brittania fashion might rule, it never may be pinned up. Just a delicately sharp edge here and there keeps it vivid and exciting and leaves room for a personal touch. And who are we to oppose this.
A dandy tailormade suit ... each man should have one in his collection. And if this does not suit a man ... then he´d better choose a style that fits him indeed:
Possen Styleguide
Published on 25-1-2006 - Fashion
