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“Dandyism was imposed on Black men in Europe during the 1700s, as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed, or dandified, servants,” Miller continues.

For much of the show, Sobelle plays a harried waiter — attentive, dandified, arrogant.

Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.

He replaced his ragged trousers and cowboy hat with a dandified suit and a bow tie and a felt hat, his eyes peering out through distinguished round-rimmed glasses.

In keeping with general trends in men’s fashion, attendees who favor streetwear over dandified suiting have also developed a taste for the outlandish.