#glasspaper

[luxxsolaris]

Distressing like a Dandy

This is just a short little comment on a topic i've been researching lately! as part of my undergrad dissertation ive been looking into dandyism, however I just want to set as a preface that this is not a practise exclusive to homosexual men. It became oftentimes associated with homosexuality towards the late Victorian era with well known dandies like Oscar Wilde and Robert de Montesquiou. This really short discussion will focus more on the prevalence of the movement across both regency and contemporary aesthetics .

The Regency Dandy is oftentimes associated with the practise of a masculine femininity or androgyny, an obsession with vanity that could rival y2k's metrosexuality.

You might think of iconography like this bastardised mimicry of aristocracy, perfect tailoring and an attitude so arrogant he aims to astonish and to stand out. He exists in defiance, an 'aesthetic form of nihilism centring the self as the world', as coined by Jean Baudrillard (Simulacra and Simulation, 1981). This kind of aestheticism caught behind the act of rejection is thought to have fizzled out as the industrial revolution conquered Europe, yet looking- not even closely, looking broadly across western society dandyism as a sociology and artistic aesthetic appears to ebb and flow, constantly circulating through our society.

As we know, the traditional dandy aimed upwards- he was a common man acting in the place of an aristocrat- perhaps better described as acting above an aristocrat, or above society. He wore neatly pressed coats of dark blue, always found himself powdered and perfumed and inserted himself into the circles of the elite yet never becoming one himself. Their defiance of the social norm lead to innovations in fashion in cultivating an appearance that was astonishing yet elegant, daring yet enjoyable- distressed clothing.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly's biography of the iconic British dandy George 'Beau' Brummell reveals that its likely that Brummell and his circle often distressed their clothes using a kind of glasspaper- "they had their clothes distressed before they put them on, all over the cloth, to the point where it was no more than a sort of lace- a cloud."

The distress of clothing has always been an integral part of the way in which we experience personal fashions and aestheticism- purposeful wearing on denims in- for example- punk and grunge movements of the 1970s acted in the same way that the distressing of fine fabrics did for the British dandies, only in the opposite direction.

This new dandyism, the act of a defiant vanity, has shifted to push the wearer into commonality instead of aristocracy whilst maintaining that integral obsession with visual appearance and capitalistic tendencies of the ideology. Designer apparel mocks the common man- for example, denims are constructed and designed to allude to the agriculturalists of early twentieth century America with wearing, discolouration, rips, frays and tears etc but are only available to those who have no need to labour. Clothing is purposefully designed to look worn in, think of the controversial 'destroyed' shoes designed by Balenciaga in 2022. The purpose of garments like these is to give the impression of commonality whilst distancing themselves from the experience- they have the ability to give the impression that they are like you whilst maintaining a materialistic capitalistic mindset that allows them to feel above the society they suggest to be living in.

The contemporary dandy is ironic, they are conscious of their clothing, elegantly dressed and massed produced. They act towards the creation of an illusion of individualisation. Where dandies like Brummell sought influence over a handful of people within the aristocratic realm, the modernisation and mass production of the contemporary dandy aims to set precedent over millions.

This illusion of commonality adorned by the pop star, the influencer, the celebrity creates a sense of kinship and relatability for those 'beneath' them (for lack of better term) that allows them to maintain an extremely particular fascination over their vanity and a nihilistic facade of humility that allows them to set trends mimicked by millions. They are their world centre, living and dying before the mirror unable to keep up with the consumer imperative, reinventing themselves constantly to maintain their idolatry.

Of course, the artistic dandy still lives today. The celebrity that rejoices in an androgynous yet fluid vanity neither fully masculine nor feminine. Think Tilda Swinton, Grace Jones. Hell, I'm sure an argument can be made for acts such as Harry Styles and Måneskin as practises of gender neutral fashions and specific vanities become more prevalent once again in celebrity spaces . No, Elton John is not a dandy. He's camp.

[mybeingthere]

Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)  Little Brother  pastel on glasspaper  Bonhams.

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[mommabebaked]

Glass papers are blessed

[onlythegeste]

Ah, the joys of doing brief research into the history of sandpaper in order to assess whether that's a thing a Victorian might use to describe the feeling of a cat's tongue.

(It's not even really that plot-relevant, but as there is canonically a cat, I felt this deserved a mention in at least one scene.)

[thoughtdestroyer]

Gentle as a spark

Quiet as a dream

Clouds and waters part

To an other side of me

Through lucent black mirrors

Smudged glasspaper screens

Curled in fear below deck

occluding manifest destiny

Blinking past iron bars as

Masked and tasked Atlas

Held in nebulous stars

Tinkle, twinkling shards

From a sanded down heart

Piled ashen sands, yet arisen

Brighter days begin a sliver of blue

Dipped across a white horizon

Fuel Flung open trap

As Jolted as once confused

Steady steps off kilter

Adagio along nouveau avenues

A captive lark wants to fly

Burn and burst into dance

Shed her vulgar trance

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[theelliottsmiths]

Allesfresser and Blut are gorgeous if the rest of the album is this good it's gonna strip my organs like medium grit glasspaper

[yanandpepper]

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[ryanphm]

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[theo-set-skills]

SANDPAPER

SANDPAPER

Comes in different grits + types

‘’glasspaper’’ = commonly used, rougher, glass stuck to paper

‘’oxide paper’’ = red grit, same principle

‘’wet and dry’’ = usually finer, can be used wet or dry (shocker)

Numbers on the back = lower the number, rougher the sandpaper

Ø  Generally, our lowest is 80, finest is 1200

Ø  1200 = for polishing, especially when wet

[thechefstoner-blog]

[playsvulgar-a]

"Today was about as much fun as a sandpaper dildo."

❛     WHAT IS THIS  :  amateur hour ? learn to take a dick, bitch.     ❜     mindy sat up at the dinner’s table  :  fingers instantly withdrawing from the sachet of  salt  she’d been absent-mindedly spinning whilst ellie ordered,     ❛     seriously, you got to see the ocean, didn’t you ? and the arcade was great ! you treat a girl to a day out  &  what do you get ? the time spent together compared to a  glasspaper cock.      ❜

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