jan 1, 1818 - Dandy Caricature

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Janes, Dominic. Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900. The University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 159-160.

"Detail, Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 'Dandies Dressing, in 'Caricature Magazine,' or 'Hudibrastic Mirror,' by G.M. Woodward, 1818..."

"[...] in the case of the macaronis, exactly who was or was not a dandy was a matter of dispute and supposition. Inasmuch as he was more than a man whose life centered around clothing, Byron was quite right to say that, as far as he was concerned, he was not a dandy: 'I like the Dandies--they were always very civil to 'me' [original emphasis]--though in general they disliked literary people.'"

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