according to the dialogues of Mr. Bananas: "... Being a dandyfesh is to be the wise man. Is the man who enjoys and celebrates being a dandy, but being very quiet, so quiet that fresh. It perfectly balanced combination of cynicism and Epicureanism From being a stoic and a lascivious. is the state of greater wisdom and tranquility in which to live. " However, the phenomenon has its connotations Dandy in the philosophical thought of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Below, some excerpts from what it was designed dandy phenomenon in European societies of the time in mention:
Source: Roberto Echavarren. Androgynous art: fashion versus style, in: books Brecha, Montevideo, 1997). Edition is also in Argentina (Buenos Aires: Colihue, 1997). fetish capital ( II) *
In principle there is no limit to the style jumps. We observed a constant overrun. Only that fashion tends to tame the style. To make it more tame, and reiterate the tautologies, such seemingly radical differences: a man is a man is a man and a woman idem Capital Marxist societies and, at least in part, societies or nazi Nazis regarded as an instrument style propaganda, or suppressed it. We might wonder what happens in capitalist societies. Here, the notion of fashion. Everything tends to be explained by fashion. It is true that this is a phenomenon alien to the Marxist societies, but there depends on the state stores, and a design from above almost confused with the plans of the political hierarchy, or simply elitist vestiges of specialty shops. In the flow of market capitalism is open to designs that have an aristocratic pedigree. If we consider for example the upper class French-the king and the nobility before the Revolution, warned that fashion was something the designers, in collusion with real power, created for the same royalty and the most exalted and powerful strata society. An aristocrat was a very different creature in appearance to a bourgeois, an artisan, a peasant. She dressed in style, living surrounded by objects, furniture, ornaments that depended on an update of fashion, and thus the model speaks Louis XIII, Louis XIV, XV, XVI, still sold in our furniture. From wigs to clothing, to the colors that were painted a room, art was appreciated, it was considered interesting or current fashion was the rule of a design from above, was concerned above all to the upper castes, and that was changing. Every king, every moment of power, brought his accent. Fashion was the art of designing the world from above, from the powerful and the rich. With the prevalence nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, fashion became the art of dressing and garnish with the bourgeoisie, with the remains of the aristocracy. Dress who had money. But then there is something different, a new type that was not discernible at all within the last century aristocratic areas. This new type is what is beginning to call the dandy. The core dandy follows landmark, but is no longer a mere aristocrat, and is also an anomaly with regard to the bourgeois world, how they dressed burghers. In the essay "The Painter of Modern Life" Baudelaire says the dandy has a certain nobility or aristocracy, but it is the nobility of blood. Try to discern what that distinction, that nobility is not caste, family. Goes on to say that a dandy can be "unemployed Hercules wanders through the Bois de Boulogne." Here emerges another situation, of the marginal, the unemployed . We went from fashion as a mica din of appearance and behavior, a school of taste, dress and attitudes, opinions and feelings, which is about the upper classes, to this other question of the appearance of the dandy that has to do with marginal, with the unemployed, even with the worker, except with the bourgeois medium. Are touching the poles rapidly. On the one hand, the high center of fashion and, secondly, the pole through the tangency dandy and marginal, is the style. The style appears in Baudelaire linked to lack of money, unemployment, no job, a marginal or a luxury estate trashy, ephemeral or worthless, and the right to laziness, which also touches or may touch the prostitution. The socialist Paul Lafargue, in his essay The Right to Laziness, 1880, report long hours of work required of the workers then. Tries to convince employers that shorter hours, as they were already law in England (ten hours), but not decrease productivity la aumentan, ya que un obrero menos cansado trabaja mejor. Piensa que tres horas de trabajo al día por persona es suficiente, o debería serlo, para asegurar un nivel satisfactorio de producción. Insta a los patrones a convertir a sus obreros en consumidores de los bienes (en muchos casos suntuarios) que fabrican, en lugar de competir por mercados externos alrededor del mundo. Arenga a los obreros para que, en vez de reclamar un derecho al trabajo con un máximo de horas, reclamen un derecho al ocio, con lo cual serían capaces de disfrutar de la vida y de eliminar el desempleo, ya que otros obreros se turnar n para completar los horarios en que ellos dejan de trabajar. Según Lafargue, las máquinas phased out the need for workers, or at least reduce the time they spend working. The dandy is a new aristocracy, not of blood, says Baudelaire, but the style. Embodies the individual who creates himself, adopting a lifestyle that allows you to enjoy every moment, to give to research and formulate a way of being born to an exercise of shameless discrimination and acceptance of their own inclinations . Instead of producing for the employer to the system, it produces itself. This is revealed in the aspect that gets, their dress, to appear, walking, living, the where it is and the times he frequents. Not including the bourgeois virtues and / or workers of the allowance and savings. Spend what you do not have, or whatever it gets thrown on the body . Often depends on the generosity of others. Maybe not as a system of organized prostitution, but as a bon vivant spirit. Indeed, the English dandies early nineteenth century used to come from impoverished families who had agreed, however, to education, schools for the aristocracy, and rubbed and played cards with friends richer. The money was sought through of gambling, with gusts of fortune aided by the skill, or potential loss and commitment to debt that could not afford alone. Depended on a lucky night or the generosity of his rich friends. The money obtained was spent ipso facto in their own appearance. Distinguished, called attention to a unique size, elegance in its purest form, without money or support, without the solidity of an aristocratic family. Were kept, fun and entertaining, and they gained value as specialists in the art of love, specialists from the leisure and fun. Set the tone, were the salt of the meetings, the excursions, parades or wagon rides. Were the most commonly wore and which enhanced the places and environments. When aged dandies ended in the most extreme and abject poverty, as cicadas who did not survive to their own summer, ruined and forgotten when he finished all his youth and that period that were in vogue and swing. Observer of the city, the streets of Paris, Baudelaire, a little later in the century, no longer located in the aristocratic dandy at meetings but on the sidewalks. The dandy is a street phenomenon found in a new open boulevard Hausmann, among the crowds. Highlights her figure, stands for something, perhaps by cutting the coat, by the way a fold down, I know not what. And that does not know what is discerned by someone who, if not it a dandy, is at least one expert, a specialist in dandies. The specialist is the painter of modern life, which sees the new features and can be painted, the artist who is referred to Baudelaire in his essay. The dandy is the singular, different. The style is a trait, an aberration, and never a fashion that it is not widespread. Fashion is a design that tends to uniformity, is for a group or body of citizens, now used this or that. Baudelaire's poem "To an intern" captures the frenzy, the punch that produces someone who emerges from the crowd and attracted by its unique characteristics. But do not reach know, the observer does not get to talk. She takes it all in a moment, look and gait. Someone who is not known and might never, in the anonymous crowd, be seen again. And yet it captures our vision, is a look to us, it brings us together and play or view anything that is within us, a secret to ourselves. Is a quasi-hallucinatory appearance, as if the object of a dream of ours.
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