Beau Brummell: The Regency Dandy Who Changed Menswear
George "Beau" Brummell had no title, no business and no trade. He never designed or made a single garment. For about sixteen years in Regency London he was nevertheless the man every fashionable Englishman was copying, and menswear has looked more or less the way he left it ever since: wool instead of silk, cut instead of embroidery, almost no colour at all.
This episode covers where he actually came from, the five-hour dressing ritual that men of rank came to watch, what he genuinely changed about men's clothes, and the quarrel with the Prince Regent that ended him. It also looks hard at how…
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