{"id":3226,"date":"2013-10-14T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2013-10-15T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:50:06","slug":"dandies-in-an-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/dandies-in-an-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandies In An Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Friday 11th October 2013.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>A rainy afternoon spent in Piccadilly with Ray Frensham, fellow subject of the book\u00c2\u00a0<em>I Am Dandy <\/em>and author of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Teach Yourself Screenwriting<\/em>. He takes me for lunch at Brasserie Zedel in Sherwood Street. Once the Atlantic Bar, it&#8217;s now a rather splendid and ornate place to meet friends for a meal. Like the Wolseley, it&#8217;s actually possible to eat there relatively cheaply if one chooses carefully. You forget it&#8217;s in a basement somewhere under Regent Street &#8211; the ceiling is so high and the decor so gilded that it manages to feel downright airy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Frensham is full of entertaining anecdotes, and talks about how his romantic life became more fun after he hit 50 rather than before. The key ingredient being the sense of finally being at home in one&#8217;s skin. I certainly find that reassuring. We mooch around Hatchard&#8217;s bookshop afterwards, and take photos of each other with the dandy book. Hatchard&#8217;s has quite a few copies, filed under Fashion.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve since re-bleached my hair so it&#8217;s now a little less yellow. Not keen on resembling a sexually confused Eminem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1374287_10153413614550651_630696432_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3227\" alt=\"1374287_10153413614550651_630696432_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1374287_10153413614550651_630696432_n.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1383204_10153413643350651_145304490_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" alt=\"1383204_10153413643350651_145304490_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1383204_10153413643350651_145304490_n.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new blog post about the book at the website for Bergdorf Goodman, the New York department store. I am featured as an example of The Dandy As Decadent, with an &#8216;under-worldly style&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bergdorfgoodman.com\/mens-style\/dressing-dandy-the-return-of-the-elegant-gentleman#slide-2\">http:\/\/blog.bergdorfgoodman.com\/mens-style\/dressing-dandy-the-return-of-the-elegant-gentleman#slide-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Frensham tells me that his appearance in the book has already led to offers for modelling suits and so forth. \u00c2\u00a0I haven&#8217;t heard anything myself &#8211; yet. It would obviously be nice if something came of appearing in either that or in the big new diary book (<em>A London Year)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But then, it&#8217;s just nice to be included for something I&#8217;m happy to be included for. As I think it says on the gates of the Underworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 11th October 2013.\u00c2\u00a0A rainy afternoon spent in Piccadilly with Ray Frensham, fellow subject of the book\u00c2\u00a0I Am Dandy and author of\u00c2\u00a0Teach Yourself Screenwriting. He takes me for lunch at Brasserie Zedel in Sherwood Street. Once the Atlantic Bar, it&#8217;s now a rather splendid and ornate place to meet friends for a meal. Like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[549,1087,552,553,542,207,551],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-london-year","tag-books","tag-brasserie-zedel","tag-hatchards","tag-i-am-dandy","tag-london","tag-ray-frensham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}