Members curate products into a shared product index and use them to create image collages called Sets. Active Polyvore communities exist in the areas of fashion, interior design, and artistic expression.
noun, plural dandies. 1. a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop. 2. Informal. something or someone of exceptional or first-rate quality: Your reply was a dandy. adjective, dandier, dandiest. 3. characteristic of a dandy; foppish.
Another prominent dandy of the period was Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay, the Count d'Orsay, who had been friends with Byron and who moved in the highest social circles of London. In 1836 Thomas Carlyle wrote: A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well: so that the others dress to live, he lives to dress ...or the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of mind.. The linkage of clothing with political protest had become a particularly English characteristic during the 18th century.