Sempre Armani

John Harvey

  • The Man of Fashion: Male Peacocks and Perfect Gentlemen by Colin McDowell
    Thames and Hudson, 208 pp, £29.95, October 1997, ISBN 0 500 01797 2

Fashion pages in papers – like fashion sections in bookshops – give more space to dresses than to suits. With the assumption that fashion is a female domain goes the popular male assumption that it is frivolous – dazzling perhaps, but ephemeral and lightweight. The accusation most commonly made against male dandies is that they are effeminate. The usual assumption would seem to be that women wear fashions, while men wear uniforms – military, civilian, athletic or ‘leisure’.

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