* Fancy Pants ( Bill Odenkirk ) is a dandy who makes occasional silent, yet noted walk-ons.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

Gentlemen began to replace the tricorne with the top hat at the end of the 18th century ; a painting by Charles Vernet of 1796, Un Incroyable, shows a French dandy ( one of the Incroyables et Merveilleuses ) wearing such a hat.

He is known for catchphrases such as " baby " and " diaper dandy " ( outstanding freshman player ), as well as enthusiastic and colorful remarks he makes during games, and has authored nine books and appeared in several movies.

Oscar Wilde, a famous dandy of his time, was often seen in portraits wearing just such a model, but this was rather rare on frock coats ; while in keeping with the flamboyant nature of Wilde's dress, it was frowned upon by traditionalists.

", and catchphrases such as " a ring-a-ding-dong dandy ".

In 1988, Krauze published a famous attack in Vuelta on novelist Carlos Fuentes and his fiction, dubbing him a " guerrilla dandy " for the perceived gap between his Marxist politics and his personal lifestyle.

* George Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), English dandy, known as " Beau Brummell ", lived in exile in Calais from 1817 to 1830.

The model dandy in British society was George Bryan " Beau " Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), an undergraduate student at Oriel College, Oxford, and an associate of the Prince Regent, who was not from an aristocratic background and whose greatness was " based on nothing at all ," as J. A.

The riot was apparently quelled when Farren had the American flag displayed, and blackface performer George Washington Dixon performed " Yankee Doodle " and the blackface minstrel song " Zip Coon ", which makes fun of a Northern black dandy.

Upon returning from England, Hubble transformed himself from a middle-class mid-westerner into an affected faux-English dandy, took on a British accent, smoked a pipe, and sometimes wore knickers and a beret while observing at the big telescopes in California.

Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy, e. g., A Rake's Progress by Hogarth which he translates into Diary of A Victorian Dandy ( 1998 ) or Dorian Gray ( 2001 ) after Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Some took a more benign view ; Thomas Carlyle in his book Sartor Resartus, wrote that a dandy was no more than " a clothes-wearing man ".

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, " metaphysical " phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: " Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism " and " These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking ....

For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

Charles Baudelaire was deeply interested in dandyism, and memorably wrote that a dandy aspirant must have " no profession other than elegance ... no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons ...

The boy had no memory of his parents or his name, so when a pretty Red Cross worker said he was " a dandy boy ," he thought she was naming him " Dondi.

For example the " gentle lion " living a lie, " I'm afraid there's no denyin ', I'm just a dandy lion.

He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent.

`` Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker and you don't have any candy for sale here anyhow ''.

A dandy ( also known as a beau or gallant ) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self.

* Lord Henry " Harry " Wotton – an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially, but later becomes more intrigued with Dorian's beauty.

A watermark is made by impressing a water-coated metal stamp or dandy roll onto the paper during manufacturing.

The dandy roll is a light roller covered by material similar to window screen that is embossed with a pattern.

Instead of using a wire covering for the dandy roll, the shaded watermark is created by areas of relief on the roll's own surface.

In his review of Ivry's biography for Library Journal Larry Lipkis is persuaded by Ivry's research that, " There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations ," but also expresses the view that Ivry's work is less persuasive in definitively linking Ravel's sexuality to characteristics of his musical oeuvre.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

" Variety magazine commented that the film has " breakneck action and some dandy dogfights ", but the dialogue is simply laughable.

He is mentioned here as the sort of dandy who is effusive in praise of rhetorical skill and who will be forced to practise more manly pursuits in future ( line 1374 ).

The picaresque story follows its protagonist, Pasqualino ( Giannini ) who, as a dandy and small-time hood in Naples, to save the family honour, is sent to prison for killing a pimp ( and then dissecting the victim and placing the body in suitcases ) who had turned Pasqualino's sister into a prostitute.

A dandy ( also known as a beau, or gallant ) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self.

In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties and nothing more.

He is a would-be dandy, just as vain as his master.

The dandy, for instance, was regarded as an ideal of masculinity in the 19th century, but is considered " effeminate " by modern standards.

" Highsmith's Bruno is a physically repugnant alcoholic ... but in Cook's hands, the film's Bruno became a dandy, a mama's boy who speaks French, and who professes ignorance of women.

The word " fop " is first recorded in 1440, and for several centuries just meant a fool of any kind ; the OED notes first use with the meaning of " one who is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners ; a dandy, an exquisite " in 1672.

" He is a regular victim of the " pie thrower " Noël Godin, who describes Lévy as " a vain, pontificating dandy ".

" In Baudelaire he finds the dandy trait in which one searches to cultivate " the idea of beauty within oneself, of satisfying one ´ s passions of feeling and thinking.

He felt that his poetry was unsuccessful, however ; he was not able to make his two selves ( whom he oddly described as the " archaic, uncouth, and even barbarous " Olsen and the " hysterically self-conscious dandy " Valentine ) speak with one voice.

Rag Doll then pushes Hatter off the roof, seemingly to his death, saying there was " only room for one dandy freak on the team.

Keaton's technical crew were unable to obtain a vintage dandy horse, so they built one to match existing drawings and prints.

David Harvey asserts that " Baudelaire would be torn the rest of his life between the stances of flâneur and dandy, a disengaged and cynical voyeur on the one hand, and man of the people who enters into the life of his subjects with passion on the other " ( Paris: Capital of Modernity 14 ).

He made more of an impression in society where he built a reputation as a dandy, a rake, a theatre supporter, and one of the best gentleman horseriders in England.