Foppish Dandyism [CanonCanonCanonCanon]

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Foppish Dandyism is going to be the next comprehensive youth trend. It is going to wash away hipsters, emos, goths, and jocks in a sea of frills, guffaws, port, prancing, and unflattering quatrains about the inordinately large waist sizes of other American youths. Call it Wandervogel or Post-Ultra-Romanticism, but either way prepare thyself. This guy is already saying the Dandys are hiding among fix-gear bike pilots. But I wouldn’t click that link. It is, as my friend Masha would say, “too fucking long and boring.” But you know a link I would click on? This one. Why? It’s awesome. It is not too cluttered either. Also, have you guys ever heard of The Smiths? Like really heard them?

The Smiths – There is a Light That Never Goes Out

Note: For more from musings from Christian and his collaborator, Josh Dunn, visit CanonCanonCanonCanon. This new site he is writing for is quite a treat. It is truly remarkable he has found time for such a project considering his rigorous schedule of lounging, boorish dinner parties with Lady Yvonne, Enough Cowbell, long stemmed cigarettes and napping. But one must work diligently to stay abreast of the current trends, you see. — Aaron

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“The dandy–quaintrelle hipster set wishes to revive older, historically specific status quos as a means of bolstering the present status quo. This is their version of the dandy’s heroism — and in it they show themselves doubly catastrophic.”

I can’t help but find Steinpilz analysis a bit overplayed. I’m admittedly unlearned in the Dandy culture, but to make a claim that identifying with a bygone “style” (clothing, bicycles, means of socializing), which seems to be a large focus of his visual analysis, ultimately make their efforts “catastrophic”, seems dramatic.

Friends of mine who have found a place in the Dandy milieu are kinder and happier for it. I encourage the exploration and experimentation of different styles.

Comment by Addison on December 8, 2009 @ 4:09 pm

Also, that was "too fucking long and boring".

Comment by Addison on December 8, 2009 @ 4:34 pm

Steinpilz's analysis is a mislead on more than few accounts; however, in terms of space consideration and, well, relevancy outside of his pretensions, I will restrain myself to a single point in my rejoiner. He has reified the "dandy–quaintrelle hipster" to a one-dimensional commodity fetishist. Stated most bluntly, "the dandy–quaintrelle hipster" exist only in the head of Steinpilz. It has no basis in the lived reality of those he is typologizing. If anything, his association concerning Dandyism with an "older, historically specific status quos" is laughable. First, as the cutting edge of German and English Romanticism, the Dandy was anything but lumpen, in point of fact, their political beliefs spanned the entire spectrum. So much should be predictable at least to the most amateur of historians. (which it seems our bloggger is not) But even more important that this historical truism is the fact that modern insurrectory anarchism was birthed from the loins of these foppish gents. As such, many of the German and English Dandys, regardless of their political and economic standing, were unusually sympathetic to Libertarian and Anarchist ideas. Status quo apologists I think not.
I recommend our dear blogger quit his central occupation of arm-chair historian and begin to do some historical or anthropological research before he begins his oh-so-acute social analysis again.

Comment by J.A. on December 9, 2009 @ 8:38 pm

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