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Was the flamboyant dandy a working-class rebel?



Dandyism is often associated with flamboyantly-dressed 19th Century figures like Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire and Lord Byron - artistic types who reproached Victorian era conformity. But a new history argues that the dandy was often a working-class irritant, subverting class structures through their sartorial splendour. 


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