Who the heck is Beau Brummell?

[mrsbrown]

Today at work I read this article while sitting in the lunch room with a bunch of other people. It featured this quote:'

He was something of a dandy, always sporting yellow socks. In fact, his house in Mayfair had once been the home of Beau Brummell.

I looked up, about to read it to someone and exclaim over the fact that I knew what the writer was talking about and how clever I am, when I stopped, looked at the twenty-something who's a fitness fanatic, and the 50-something who probably doesn't read the sort of books I do, and I stopped myself.

So I'm exclaiming here, and then I'm going to bed

Comments

If they had a local gangster

[erudito.livejournal.com]

Would that mean he could say he was Made of Orleans?