British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation

APR 23, 202436 MIN
Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation

APR 23, 202436 MIN

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Well-dressed men have played a distinctive part in the cultural and political life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the British dandies provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Dr. Dominic Janes reveals to us how the scandalous history of fashionable men and their clothes is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality. Episode 550.