One of my favorite Tom Wolfe essays from the early 1960s, in which Tom first outed himself as a dandy who took clothes seriously is on the Web, along with an essay on the same subject from 1960 by the late George Frazier.
This is wonderful stuff–four decades before the birth of that ridiculous word, “metrosexual”.
Closet dandies of the world enjoy–you have much to learn from these two masters of a lost art.
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