Garden & Gun

Fine and Dandy

Is the Southern dandy extinct, or are some still left on the hoof ?

As fashion fauna goes, the South’s peacock is not endangered. Back when dressy spring garden parties for two hundred were possible, one Alabama hostess calculated that more than twenty pairs of double cuffs per hundred men made any event look like “a gamblers’ convention stuck out on a fake riverboat on

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