DANDY

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Carlyle, Thomas
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man,—a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes.—Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object—the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

The all-importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy, without effort, like an instinct of genius: he is inspired with cloth—a poet of clothing.

Rivarol, Antoine
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.