Beau Brummell
Americannoun
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George Bryan Brummell, 1778–1840, an Englishman who set the fashion in men's clothes.
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an extremely or excessively well-dressed man; fop; dandy.
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a dressing table for men, having a variety of elaborate arrangements of mirrors, candle brackets, etc. (invented in England in the late 18th century).
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Back when finely dressed men realized you didn’t have to hide the collar underneath folds of outerwear, Beau Brummell brought his out in dramatic fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Beau Brummell is credited with the simplification of the three-piece suit and the start of dandyism in the late 1790s and early 1800s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
He was a contributing editor of British Vogue and described somewhere as part Montesquieu, part Beau Brummell and part Baudelaire.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2014
Kelly – who is an actor as well as the biographer of Casanova and Beau Brummell – handles theatrical rumour and apocrypha with great care.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
Mr. Carlyle somewhere contrasts his age with that of Elizabeth, after this fashion; “For Raleighs and Shakespeares we have Beau Brummell and Sheridan Knowles.”
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
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