365 Top Ten Lists. This is my project for 2010.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Ten Dandyish Outfits of Oscar Wilde.

*Courtesy of Richard Ellmann's Biography of the same.

1. His school uniform consisted of scarlet and lilac shirts.
2. At Trinity he liked to wear tweeds of huge checks with bird's-eye blue ties, high collars and roll-brimmed hats sitting, cocked, on one ear. I am always admiring of someone who pulls off the right combinato of brown and blue. When you get it right it a magnificent thing—like the right yellow and grey. Believe me, I used to be a colour consultant.
3. To a party he once wore a tailcoat that was shaped and styled to look like a cello. I reckon that would make your bottom look large. It's not a piece I'll be emulating soon.

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