Pretty Gentlemen Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World by Peter Mc Neil

Pretty Gentlemen Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World by Peter Mc Neil is an exquisite new important volume soon published by Yale Press. A fusion of history, elegance, food, caricatures, objects, suits, real portrays of most prominent representatives from policy to "showbiz" passing through art of the so-called Macaroni Men in grade to mark history with their unique, elegant, exquisite way of introducing themselves in the society, imitated by everyone. For thirty years from 1760 to 1790 Macaroni Men dictated  a way of living in various countries.
The Macaroni existed 30 years before the so-called dandies, (esponent of dandies was Oscar Wilde.)

This study is a social, sexual and general cultural history of the Macaroni.

The richest representatives of this "movement" bought textiles in France and Italy and were spectacularly elegant although their role didn't end there.

We will discover reading this book that history is also written when fashion meets grace and elegance. This volume divided in seven chapters testifies it.



Anna Maria Polidori