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Discretion and delectation are assured



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How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners


• https://www.pdfdrive.com/how-to-be-a-gentleman-a-timely-guide-to-timeless-manners-e195365927.html

C4LEB
1 year ago


Tradition both protects standards and erodes relevance. It's  necessary to know the past to decide the future in the present. Club Gilbertín c.1898

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It may well be an eighteenth-century construct underpinned by the industrial revolution and financed by colonialism, but men have sought the company of other men for centuries. Certain men moved up from the coffee houses and out of the salons. Thus was born the gentleman's club.

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The gentleman's guide to cool : clothing, grooming & etiquette


• https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-gentlemans-guide-to-cool-clothing-grooming-etiquette-e196782888.html

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Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815


Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman. Solinger identifies a corpus of texts that address masculinity and challenges the notion of a masculine figure that has been regarded as unchanging.



• https://www.pdfdrive.com/becoming-the-gentleman-british-literature-and-the-invention-of-modern-masculinity-16601815-e183841022.html

C4LEB
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1 year ago


A gentleman requires few things to get by: a bespoke suit, at least two tailored shirts and a dress shirt, dependable but classic leather shoes, a comfortable dressing gown, an inobtrusive leather wallet, an elegant timepiece, and a fine pen.


All else is unnecessary, and mere marketing.

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Having both is better again.






 

C4LEB
1 year ago