A gentleman's dress and gentlemanly behavior

"He had that supreme elegance of being, quite simply, what he was."

-C. Albaret describing Marcel Proust

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Gruto

Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:17 pm

A quote about the 1840s from Richard Sennet's The Fall of Public Man:

"One could always recognize gentlemanly dress because the buttons on the sleeves of a gentleman's coat actually buttoned and unbuttoned, while one recognized gentlemanly behavior in his keeping the buttons scrupulously fastened."
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:48 am

:D Great!
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