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"It's a tension between Blackness and whiteness in my work, a tension between straight/gay, feminine/masculine, high class/low class pretender." The original British dandy "It's a figure of tension," said Monica Miller, professor of Africana studies and English at Barnard College in New York City and author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Over the last 200 years, the dandy has been challenging those prevailing conceptions of masculinity and rebelling against cultural, gender, social and racial norms. I wouldn't consider any of those friends homophobic or misogynistic, but it's hard to separate the word "dandy" from our culture's pejorative association with it, rooted in the idea that if a man is too concerned with his appearance (which can often mean any concern at all), there is something wrong with him, something unmanly. When I swapped the word "dandy" for "rake," they approved, even though half of them weren't exactly sure what it meant. "I'd never visit a site like that," they told me, even if it included useful advice on building a better wardrobe.
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When I started my menswear blog about a decade ago, I wanted to name it "The Hogtown Dandy." It combined one of the nicknames for Toronto, where I live, and a character who cares about how he dresses.