The female
counterpart is a quaintrelle. In the 12th century, cointerrels (male) and
cointrelles (female) emerged, based upon coint, indicating a person of
beautiful dress and refined speech. By the 18th century, coint became quaint,
indicating elegant speech and beauty. Middle English dictionaries note
quaintrelle as a beautifully dressed woman (or overly dressed), but do not
include the favorable personality elements of grace and charm. The notion of a
quaintrelle sharing the major philosophical components of refinement with
dandies is a modern development, one which returns quaintrelles to their
historic roots.

Dandyism
had its roots in the Macaroni Club formed in London , England , in the 1760s by a group of rich
young Englishmen who had just returned from a tour of Italy . The Macaronis championed elaborate
and exaggerated styles of dress. They loaded themselves down with layer after
layer of lace ruffles and gold embroidery and wore knee buckles, striped
stockings, and shoes with bright red heels. Some of them sported wigs that were
at least a foot high, topped by a tricorne, or three-cornered, hat. In fact,
the lyric from the famous American patriotic song "Yankee Doodle":
"Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni," refers to these
early dandy fashions.



Beau
Brummell's fame and influence long outlived him. Through his friendship with
the future British king George IV (1762–1830), he left a lasting mark on
English fashion. Though the dandies are long gone, and often mocked in comedies
about the period for their excessive manner of dress, men in the West continue
to wear trousers and somber colors and to dress themselves in the elegant style
set by these fashion pioneers.
Oscar Wilde
was much more than a witty wordsmith who created plays, novels and poems that
still feel modern today. He was also a trendsetter, a party animal and a dandy
from head to toe. He is probably the world’s most famous dandy, and could be
seen walking down Piccadilly with his long hair, lavender-coloured gloves,
velvet coat, white silk cravat and flowered waistcoat. Sometimes he even held a
lily in his hand.
The
butterfly Dandy: Joyaux of the fashion world
The
romantic Dandy: The lover of elegance past
The esthete
Dandy: The well-dressed artist
The
decadent Dandy: The Philospher of fun
The Dandy
striving after elegance and this is his ultimate and unique goal. Everything he
does is designed to be social elegant presentation to make, so great care must
be taken not only appear in his extravagant clothes but with a personality. A
dandy is a man whose pursuit of elegance in dress, manners, etc. to highest
target set.

The
Romantic Dandy loves elegance. Like the first dandy he knows this to embody and
like the Decadent enjoys full of fun. He adores the past, and the elegance they
contain and crying: how could such an elegance lost! The Romantic loves
elegance and want to catch anywhere.
The
Romantic is the Gothic temperament par excellence.
An esthete
is an artist. His life is built around his art and he lives for his own
creativity. A wardrobe esthete, manners, style, conversation will generally
focus on the impressive, capturing attention, and entertaining to those to whom
he speaks, he lives for the crowd.
The
decadents are philosophers of fun. They look elegant, but not for himself as
the first. The fashion for the Decadent is rich, colorful and inspires an
almost tactile admiration. Decadents life for love elegance and beauty and
dress accordingly.
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