the Panama hat (for the urban dandy). That means hats have once again become a semiological minefield. There is, however, a middle ground. “My advice,” said Stephen Jones, the British hat ...

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A man wearing a hat indoors seems to Miss Manners to be the ... DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was introduced to a young dandy about my age who had worn his feathered fedora during a church wedding and ...

With a cane and hat just about anyone can look quite the dandy. Meet the fine and dandy gentlemen our Serena Altschul has been watching: "My style is a little bit of Jazz Age," said Dandy Wellington.

The black top hats we’re familiar with, especially in photos of Abraham Lincoln, were often called stovepipe hats. These extremely tall hats — 10 to 13 inches — were popular in the mid-1800s.

Each dandy creates their own unique style ... While Adams, the historian, is drawn to bow ties, buck shoes and straw hats, Andrew says the beauty of dandyism is making it your own.

it’s hard to picture an archetypal dandy without a foppish hat on their head. Though she may have been the last to turn up, Rihanna won last night’s hat game by a head’s length, sporting an ...