Modern Dandyism
blogDandyism is not just about wearing clothes, dandyism is about becoming who you are.
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I want to find elegant solutions to the problems suffered by those who think too much and dress too well.
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The opposite of a dandy is the person who doesn’t own any of their thoughts, the person whose sense of style is dictated by social pressures, the person who whole life is consumed in meaningless activities that they didn’t choose.
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You are a garden and Dandyism is about self-cultivation. Plant seeds of interesting flowers you want to grow within yourself, pluck the weeds that suffocate the tender blooms, add order, beauty, scent, and attract birds. These are the things that we can do with cultivation. Small changes, small additions, tweaking your life until it is flourishing.
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The dandy is an artist of his own existence, paying attention to the details that make the difference.
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Choose continual improvement over gradual decline, choose thinking about existence rather than rotting in front of a TV, choose being well-dressed over just making do with what you find in your wardrobe. Choose cultivating the self rather stagnating with a few well-worn paperback. Choose dandyism.
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Dandy subjects include wit, beauty, aesthetics, modernity, being well-dressed, leisure, pleasure, enjoyment, mindfulness, anarchy, dada, going against the tide, anti-cliche, cultivation, acting, obsession, freedom . . .