Test yourself - How Dandy Are You?

If you have read our article The dandy style and you found in yourself some of the described characteristics, but you are not completely sure if you can call yourself a Dandy, here is a test to help you.

French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921)
portrait by Giovanni Boldini

The test is based on comparison of a numeric value and certain tastes, habits, skills and opinions between yours and those of 'the dandy ideal'.

For example: 'It is important to distinguish what is upper class from what is dandy. When it comes to sport, polo may be upper class, but boxing and fencing were practiced by many dandies in fact and fiction'.

So, have fun and find out How dandy are you?