Beau Brummell's style

[Frog in Suit]

A short film about Beau Brummell's style, from the Savile Row Bespoke web site:

http://savilerowbespoke.com/2012/05/film-star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBuWmNgdtjU&feature=plcp

Frog in Suit

[NJS]

Good stuff!
NJS

[Frog in Suit]

It is also good to see Meyer & Mortimer/Jones Chalk & Dawson getting a bit of promotion via the Savile Row Bespoke site and on television as well. They are usually very reticent about advertising or, perhaps, they do not have the in-house PR firepower that some other houses possess. Not that one would want them to, of course!
Frog in Suit

[hectorm]

Thank you Frog in Suit for posting this video clip.
Since this topic interested you, I believe that you would love reading (if you haven´t done it already) Ian Kelly´s book on Brummell´s life and style. Really good stuff, indeed.

[Frog in Suit]

Thank you.
I have the book. I first saw it displayed in Meyer & Mortimer’s Sackville Street shop some years ago. Fascinating stuff.
Meyer & Mortimer/ Jones Chalk & Dawson have kept quite a few documents from their illustrious clients (letters, pictures, orders, warrants etc.). They also lost much in the bombing of their Conduit Street shop in 1942.
I was told that they were once approached by a historian trying to piece together, from their travelling order book, the itineraries and locations of British regiments in the days and weeks following Waterloo; it seems the various units' whereabouts before the battle are well documented but no-one bothered to keep track of them afterwards…
Last year's (?) exhibition of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's collections (at the Queen's Gallery) had a pair or pistols and some Highlands accessories (a skean dhu – sp ? --, a brooch...) supplied by the Mortimer shop in Edinburgh in the 1840s.
Being military tailors, they have extensive records and specifications of uniforms of the past, as well as of current ones.
Frog in Suit

[Dr T]

Just finished reading the book on Beau's life - a great man and a true setter of style rather than a slave to fashion.If you get a chance to read it "Beau Brummell" the ultimate dandy, by Ian Kelly. I would advise however not to read past page 321 as its a very sad ending. Im not sure either that Mr Brummell would have approved.

[Dr T]

Just finished reading the book on Beau's life - a great man and a true setter of style rather than a slave to fashion.If you get a chance to read it "Beau Brummell" the ultimate dandy, by Ian Kelly. I would advise however not to read past page 321 as its a very sad ending. Im not sure either that Mr Brummell would have approved.

[theoldesouth]

Will look for the book. Thanks.