Popeye, The Eternal.

pulling it off.

Popeye is a magazine popular amongst high school and college boys in Japan.

The features are always (to be honest) kind of crazy. Hunting deer in plaid short-shorts and a mink vest? Of course. It's exhilarating Japanese craziness.

For neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the site and materials whereon and whereby his beautified edifice, of a Person, is to be built.

-- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus I:v

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A Well Placed Ring

Pierre Clementi in Belle du Jour
"The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rings."

ARTICLES OF FAITH.

1. Coats should have nothing of the triangle about them; at the same time, wrinkles behind should be carefully avoided.

2. The collar is a very important point: it should be low behind, and slightly rolled.

3. No license of fashion can allow a man of delicate taste to adopt the posterial luxuriance of a Hottentot.

4. There is safety in a swallow-tail.

5. The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rings.

6. It is permitted to mankind, under certain restrictions, to wear white waistcoats.

7. The trousers must be exceedingly tight across the hips.

Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus. III x: The Dandiacal Body

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2 Color Russian Poster

Poster for Der Mann im Feuer. See it in its full glory here.

Red, black, and yellowing paper. So satisfying.

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"Patrician" is Okay if You're Capucine

"nothing in my hands" [in givenchy]

Capucine in Walk on the Wild Side... Icy aristocratic perfection, playing a prostitute. Well, she's not known for her acting skills.

flippant

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No Mans Error Becomes His Own Law

I've been dandy so long, I don't even care.

When you've been living the life so long, you start to break the rules and accessorize to your own tune (or parrot chirp, as it were). That's when you know you've Owned It Truly. To wit:

a. Wearing a necktie as a bow tie.
b. A vintage archer's jacket resurrecting long lost meanings of "smart sport coat".
c. Turquoise satin trim on coats is a definite "do".
d. Parrots count as jewelry.

No more are the Actions, that proceed from those Passions, till they know a Fashion Law that forbids them: which till fashion Lawes be made they cannot know: nor can any Law be made, till they have agreed upon the Cookie-cutter Dresser that shall make it.

These Laws persist until broken by the true Dandy.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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Teutonic!

Too German for Dandy?

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Beleevers :: Jacques Dutronc

Vertuous Praise for Jacques Dutronc. He is the original quaalude dandy: style in a stupor.

Here he is, singing (read: staggering) to Le Plus Difficile. Let's also not forget Pan's People, showing off exemplar 60s dance moves.

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State of Warre:: Rubber Rain Boots

Appropriate forum. No Kate Spade, please.

Unless one findes oneselfe on a Hunt in the Wildernesse, or in a Biblicall Flood, one should refrayne from the wearing of Rubber Rain Boots.

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Eyelids

stylish

Hers is the head upon which all
'the ends of the world are come',
and the eyelids are a little weary.

--Walter H. Pater

Describing the Mona Lisa,
but it might as well be Marilyn.

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State of Warre :: Fleece

Fashion Forward with Polar Fleece.
-- from David Stein

The invention of Fleece, though ingenious, has led to a Trayne of abuse and generall Iniquity. He who clothes himselfe in Things Fleece will find himselfe in a Confederacy of Deceivers who shall dis-prepare him for the Kingdome of God to come.

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