dan·dy·ism ˈdan-dē-ˌi-zəm
1: the style or conduct of a dandy
2: a literary and artistic style of the latter part of the 19th century marked by artificiality and excessive refinement
“Dandyism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
"The history of black style's most famous figure, the dandy, strikingly chronicles the sometimes exuberant, sometimes tortured relationship between dress and identity for black people. Although dandies are best known in Western high culture as fashionably dressed aesthetes, well-tailored but morally bankrupt aristocrats, or bohemian conversational wits, when racialized as black, however, their extravagant bodily display changes supposed frivolity into a mode of social, cultural, and political critique."
"Black Dandy, The ." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2025
