[SedVictaCatoni]

This isn't anything new. Once upon a time, they were dandies, then before that fops. In prior decades, men were interested in elegantly groomed hair using hair gel (pomade). Before that, they took great care to wear the proper spats and cravats.

A little piece of history: in the nineteenth century, the same sort of men were interested in macassar oil, the hair tonic which was all the rage. (So called because it came from Macassar, on Celebes.) So many men used macassar oil that people began to have to take measures to protect their upholstery, as the headrests on chairs would become oily and stained from the hair tonic which seeped from mens' heads as they laid against them.

So were born the little cloth draperies which people still today place over the headrests of recliners. Everybody has, however, forgotten that these are called antimacassars, and they're supposed to protect against macassar oil.

[Eddie Dean]

Don't forget... daily dragging a razor sharp blade of stainless steel across our faces could be construed as an extreme form of vanity.

[Wycowboy]

When I was a young country boy in the wilds of Wyoming, I was taught that a "Jim Dandy" was a fellow that had been circumcised with pinking shears.