Royal wedding of son of Princess Anne

[Luca]

The world may indeed be full of "dandy wannabes" but I take it you are referring to benighted followers of fashion??

The sort of reactionary person (like us) who even conceives of rules and categories of dress, in this age, is not someone who will want to 'break' rules that nearly no-one adheres to. Such an elegant man may signal his taste, as Brummell did, with a small, subtle variation.

I think grey morning coats look cartoonish, FWIW.

[Guille]

The world may indeed be full of "dandy wannabes" but I take it you are referring to benighted followers of fashion??

The sort of reactionary person (like us) who even conceives of rules and categories of dress, in this age, is not someone who will want to 'break' rules that nearly no-one adheres to. Such an elegant man may signal his taste, as Brummell did, with a small, subtle variation.

I think grey morning coats look cartoonish, FWIW.

Yes, I was refering to men who follow fashion, but that is pretty much everyone, I was refering more precisely to men who try to create fashion by wearing odd things in odd manners. I agree with you about "breaking" the rules and being elegant... I wasn't trying to defend the Prince nor to say he was an elegant man, but that elegant men in general are not looked at as better (as they did back in the times) but even as worse as they are seen as too snobish or something like that.

I like the look of grey morning suits, although nowadays they might look cartoonish due to the stereotypical depiction of the rich%powerfull as snobish who wear odd formalwear that nobody cares about today, they have gained the connotation of cartoonish.