#Beau Brummell

[clove-pinks]

Once again I am asking you to read fashion historian Cassidy Percoco's Twitter thread about changes in men's fashion in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It's a quick read and informative! In brief:

Men's fashion became more subdued over the course of the 18th century

Beau Brummell had nothing to do with the move away from earlier styles

I quote: "Brummell made his name by wearing the hell out of what already was considered fashionable - working within the parameters of normal dress"

Colourful men's fashion was a thing for most of the 19th century!!!! It didn't go away in the Regency period!!!!

Stop with the long-debunked "Beau Brummell ruined men's fashion" canard, I'm begging you.

I looked up this "Great Male Renunciation" concept, since I have never heard of such a thing even in books dedicated to the history of men's fashion, and surprise! It was coined by a psychologist in 1930!

One of the sources cited by Wikipedia is Nicholas Storey's book History of Men's Fashion: What the Well-dressed Man is Wearing, which I own, and it's so dull and lazy and awful that I still haven't moved it to my new apartment. The author is literally a British barrister with no academic background in dress history, who openly admits to not owning more than two fashion history books in a 2013 interview, and that checks out with what I remember about his book: his opinionated blather on what he thinks is a good man's suit, as a rich lawyer guy.

I'm not saying that you couldn't find more respectable sources to support the "Great Male Renunciation" idea, but I don't think it's very supported by the historical record. You can say a lot about changing fashions and ideas about masculinity without setting up an over-hyped and dramatic break from past styles.

#fashion history #dress history #beau brummell #great male renunciation #historical men's fashion #18th century #19th century #also if OP sees this hi i am one of the Appear in an Illustration supporters of dandies & dandyzettes #love your work!

[vinceaddams]

have you ever had the urge to fistfight beau brummel? i certainly have

I assume you're referring to the infuriating popular myth that he somehow transformed all menswear and made everything boring during the relatively brief time that he was popular and influential, even though menswear was already well on its way to becoming more plain when he was a small child and there were plenty more fancy & exciting styles after he died, so no.

I would much rather fight the ignorant fool who wrote that goddamn bullshit twitter thread and that goddamn bullshit esquire article about him.

#ask #beau brummell #history #19th century #fashion #video

[villainsidechick]

It's not fair --

That we are completely denied the pleasure of seeing Peter as Darcy.

Not to mention seeing him as a complete dandy, as Beau Brummell

No man should look that good in regency period style.

#peter cushing #mr darcy #pride and predujice #beau brummell #bbc

[forthegothicheroine]

I ended up googling Beau Brummell’s sexuality to understand a thing I was reading and every single link had a different answer in the first sentence.

#Beau Brummell #history

[taffetastrology]

The signs as Beau Brummell costumes

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

#the signs as #zodiac aesthetic #astrology #horoscope #beau brummell #elizabeth taylor

[caelestis-cherie]

Back for my once a month post 🫡

#beau brummell #digital art

[thesixthduke]

1836 British Naval Uniform

#higginsandcole #mensfashion #mens wear #menswear #uniform #British #dandy #beau brummell

[hussyknee]

Beau Brummell should made to answer for the irrevocable devastation he wreaked on Western menswear that it has never recovered from to date.

#i do credit him for encouraging regular bathing #but when you look at the explosion of colour and whimsy and beauty of men's fashion until the regency era #and the monochrome and brown devastation that's followed for the last 200 years since he happened #it should make you want to cry #he deserved to die poor and insane especially considering men all over the world now suffer from his crimes thanks to colonialism #BRING BACK THE HEELS AND COLOUR AND EMBROIDERY. RELEASE MASCULINITY FROM THESE SHACKLES #fashion history #history #western history #regency era #beau brummell

[peggy-elise]

John Barrymore in Beau Brummel 1924 🎩

#old hollywood #beauty #historical drama #silent film #1920s cinema #john barrymore #mary astor #regency fashion #beau brummell

[thedeadleafs]

Beau Brummell: The First Menswear Influencer?

George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840)

00:00 Beau Brummell Introduction

When it comes to historic Menswear, few names rank higher than that of George Bryan “Beau” Brummell, English gentleman of leisure, dandy, and menswear influencer. During his time, Brummell was a genuine tastemaker whose views on menswear dictated fashion and whose style would resonate for years to come.

01:50 Beau Brummell’s Early Years

In keeping with our belief that a gentleman is made by the choices of his life and not the circumstances of his birth, we should note that Beau Brummell was not of aristocratic birth. Thanks to hard work and useful connections the Brummell family enjoyed a solidly middle-class lifestyle.

04:19 The Military and George IV

05:55 Brummell in London

08:10 Style Analysis

What he did in the early 19th century still informs the consensus of what good taste looks like in menswear. His clothes represented an understated elegance including a disdain for anything “over the top.” He also established a limited range of appropriate colors and the color theory for combining them effectively through contrast, something we still do when we pair blue and gray or brown and blue.

In later generations, Brummell’s look would evolve into the suit and tie but, more directly, into the sport coat and pants combination, since he preferred not to match his coat with his trousers. The emphasis on neckwear as the ornamental center of attention in a tailored outfit remains with us via the necktie or bow tie. Brummell’s choice of contrasting black and white as he changed from day into evening wear remains the black-tie dress code today. Yet it is perhaps formal morning dress, particularly a morning coat and separate colored trousers with a light-colored vest, that most closely evokes the Regency attire Brummell actually wore.

13:59 Brummell the "Troll"

15:01 Brummell's Last Days & Legacy

16:58 Outfit Rundown

#Beau Brummell #fashion #videos

[oochilka]

Larry as Beau Brummel

#laurence rickard #beau brummell #horrible histories #six idiots #lovely larry

[clove-pinks]

The term dandy meant vastly different things from its inception in the late 1790s to its heyday in 1819. It was largely superseded by the term beau 1810-1815, and then resurrected by post-period writers to each of whom, as we have seen, it signified something different. It is significant that Beau Brummell was called ‘Beau’, as was Wellington, ‘The Beau’ by his contemporaries, or occasionally, ‘The Peer’. Wellington was often portrayed as dressing simply, in white pantaloons, hessians, blue frock and white neck-cloth and cocked hat. [...]

The dress he wore for the battlefield and for campaigning would have been entirely in place on Bond Street among the beaux of the ton, admittedly with the addition of some military trappings, such as the sash and sword. He was an early adopter of fashion, if not an innovator. It is certain that he set the pattern for the young officers of the army, who wanted to cut a dash by imitating their leader. They talked of ‘the true Wellington pattern cocked hat’, the ‘Wellington boot’, the ‘Wellington pelisse’, and so on.

— Ben Townsend, Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion: The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1815: Volume II

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Charles Turner, after Juan Bauzil (or Bauziel), hand-coloured mezzotint, published 1817. (National Portrait Gallery)

Bauzil, Juan, active 1816. Bauzil, Juan, fl 1816 :Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. Engraved by Chas. Turner; [painted] by Bauzit [ie Bauzil]. London, published April 16th 1816 by the Proprietor Chas Turner.. Ref: C-021-001. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

#arthur wellesley #1810s #fashion history #napoleonic #dress history #duke of wellington #regency #dandyism #beau brummell #fashion #military history #dandy #wellington #ben townsend #british army #men's fashion #historical men's fashion

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue January 1, 1967

Suzy Parker is wearing a Tattersall shirt and tie, - a wide Beau Brummel collar and a knotted tie. Lady Hathaway by Melba Hobson, in blue-grey. white wool and cotton flannel.

Suzy Parker porte une chemise et une cravate Tattersall, - un large col Beau Brummel et une cravate nouée. Lady Hathaway par Melba Hobson, en bleu-gris. laine blanche et flanelle de coton.

Photo Franco Rubartelli

vogue archive

#us vogue #january 1967 #fashion 60s #1967 #tattersall #beau brummell #lady hathaway #melba hobson #suzy parker #franco rubartelli #spring/summer #printemps/été

[issela-santina]

Crowley was Beau Brummell's fashion nemesis

(a story in six words)

#good omens #good omens crowley #good omens fic #thin dark duke #beau brummell #men's fashion #six word story

[uncouthriot]

i’m going to bed but uhhh have this

#beau brummell #regency fashion #regency era #19th century #cain’s dandies

[caelestis-cherie]

Normalize obsessing over a ship with two white men from the regency period

#beau brummell #george bryan brummell #lord byron #kinda queer ngl #beau brummell x lord byron #regency #regency period #digital art