#dandizettes

‘Dandies and Dandizettes dressing for the Easter Ball’ (1819).

“I wear a pair of #handcrafted shoes that fit my soul like a #dandizettes glove Reminding me that #fashion is armour. Fashion is dangerous It is the quotidian rendered extraordinary by time. We are all latter day #cavaliers & #dandizettes riding into battle to sustain the world in our lace-trimmed scarlet capes It is the memories of our ancestor’s memories Swirling under the chandeliered, mirror-walled palaces, In a ballgown the colour of claret, Fleeing #olivercromwell #lgbtqia genocides For Fashion is the quotidian rendered infinite by poetry. We are all latter day #cavaliers and #dandies riding into battle to sustain the world in lace-trimmed scarlet capes Billowing parachute gowns snipped from fallen #WWII airmen plummeting from skies above We may die tomorrow; But in this moment we have the visual poetry of hand-crafted Dreams #neckshrines created from a stream of resplendent possibilities As we celebrate the power of #fashionasart to transform And toast the infinite ability of #artasfashion to transfigure For one day soon, we are going to party like it’s #1660 “ poem by ©️#tyneoconnell 7 October 2018 @southbankcentre #loveinfinity #royalfestivalhall @timyipstime @meihuiliu8 @lilili_untitled @daniellismore @dragsyndrome @therealpandemonia @velveteccentric @suekreitzman @suedraylcf @highfashionhockey @johndavidgusman @kreemart @markogm #environment #sustainablefashion #blacklivesmatter #queerhistory #queertorchbearers #eccentrics #baroque #history #artisans #bespokefashion (at Royal Festival Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFgy-LAYyS/?igshid=1bth259uyy0ei

Taking the #soho Night Air on #deanstreet with #philipsallon fabulous birthday party @thegrouchoclub - Soho has been home to #eccentrics #Dandizettes #dandies artists authors playwrights & originals such as #sabastianhorsley #corinneday Angelica KauffmanRA since the reign of Queen Henry & King CharlesI - Inigo Jones built London’s first garden squares here in 1630 - still from a film by @muirvidler crown @velveteccentric bag @hermes #bracelet @chanelofficial rings @chaumetofficial @blushbashfuluk @bentley_skinner @aspreylondon (at The Groucho Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B452xIBgeQm/?igshid=cbkebqjap0e5

Tyne O’Connell takes the #Soho air on #deanstreet with #philipsallon @thegrouchoclub - Soho has been home to #eccentrics #Dandizettes #dandies artists authors playwrights & originals such as #sabastianhorsley #corinneday Angelica KauffmanRA since the reign of Queen Henry & King CharlesI - Inigo Jones built London’s first garden squares here in 1630 - still from a film by @muirvidler crown @velveteccentric bag @hermes #bracelet @chanelofficial rings @chaumetofficial @blushbashfuluk @bentley_skinner @aspreylondon (at The Groucho Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B450o27AmGa/?igshid=th6xp3annx1p

Unleash your inner #dandy #dandizettes - Lifes too short to fit in! As #quentincrisp said “you owe it to your #biographer to be interesting!” & besides expressing your ideas sartorially adds #glamour to every occasion - even if like me you have a #braintumour & spend most of your life in bed ⚜️by wearing an #ancestral #ballgown & a #Regency #tiara sickbeds are transformed to #Mayfair eccentric salons where #LordByron & his daughter #countesslovelace #artist #angelicakauffman & #oscarwilde Burned brightly armed to the teeth with ideas and #glamour ⚜️teaming with the naughtiness & #subversiveideas over saucers of #champagne & #cupsoftea ⚜️ Take a long hard look at your wardrobe today and ask yourself “if I was about to go to a #Mayfair #eccentric #Salon with #OscarWilde & fellow “would any of these #jeans #suits or #frocks be worthy?” If not It’s time to be sartorially daring - Remember, no one will thank you for fitting-in and certainly no one will remember you💜⚜️🥂🍾⚜️@nicoleclemens @velveteccentric (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuGsfAKA-kq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sxxfzadi8jda

Life is too short for ordinary- we owe it to posterity to be extraordinary every day . I have heard it said “I wear what I want and others don’t like it they can be damned.” But in truth we are all damned if we don’t celebrate the majestic splendour of the sartorial every day for #fashion - what we wear is how we express our ideas - #subversives & #dandizettes dress #elegantly as well as #eloquently & eschew the Temptation to merely “fit in” By wearing the uniform of the masses - jeans T-shirts & trainers 💜💜💜 (at Home House) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuFBnH_AB6E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19g6sqr19ylxp

2010 interview “Since 1603 #dandizettes & #dandies have been famed for their #sartorial #bravery & staunch forbearance in their quest for magnificence - often first expressed in their howls during infancy at attempts to force them into ugly baby-grows ⚜️Dandizettes are not motivated by a simple love of splendid clothing But like Dandies have a vocation - a sacred-quest to transmute sartorial humdrum into flamboyant splendour, the banal to the sublime, & the suitable into the spectacular. @dandizettes & #Dandies are not #fashionistas Nor are they defined by what they wear but rather use fashion to express the ideas that flow through their their dedication to Art & Beauty. The Dandy & #Dandizette were named as such in the 1620s ultimately triggering the Civil Wars of the #puritan zealots led by #olivercromwell who believed #thearts Beauty & Pleasure were the 3 prongs of Satan’s #Trident whilst the #Dandy & #dandizettes expressed their love for Art Beauty & #Pleasure in their #Tricorn #hats festooned in #feathers #jewels & #frippery (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_0gkDgPu1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=khext0vlb2pr

2017 with @daniellismore Honouring the kindness & #kindmanners that formed the backbone of the history of #eccentrics #dandies & #dandizettes - since 1603 when our first #gayandproud #king the son of #maryqueenofscots abolished censorship & #sumptuarylaws which restricted the clothes we wore to our rank in society & gender ⚜️ The Stuart reign triggered the century of #eccentrics #crossdressing & created a #genderfluid society that defined the Stuart reign of #jamesI & King Charles I enraging the religious zealots who in 1625 demanded Charles I murder his father’s male wife #georgevilliers & outlaw #crossdressing & #homosexuality ⚜️ King Charles I refusal to bow to the parliamentary #puritans demands ultimately lead to the brutal #civilwars & his own murder by #Puritan #zealots & a #pogrom against #lgbt artists & eccentrics of Britain as Cromwell’s Puritan Military dictatorship replaced democracy until his death in 1658 - honouring the history of Eccentrics with @daniellismore (at The National Liberal Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttrZfnn8S8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wbsz6q5wjd0