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  • Whether you e-mail your guy this rundown or happen to be looking for some inspiration of your own, these four blogs men's street style blogs are the dapperest of the bunch.

    Refinery29.com: PHOTOS: The Best Mens Street Style Blogs Refinery29.com 2010

  • Whether you e-mail your guy this rundown or happen to be looking for some inspiration of your own, these four blogs men's street style blogs are the dapperest of the bunch.

    Refinery29.com: The Best Mens Street Fashion Blogs (PHOTOS) Refinery29.com 2010

  • Whether you e-mail your guy this rundown or happen to be looking for some inspiration of your own, these four blogs men's street style blogs are the dapperest of the bunch.

    Refinery29.com: The Best Mens Street Fashion Blogs (PHOTOS) Refinery29.com 2010

  • He bowed and smiled in the most unexceptionable of white chokers and the dapperest of dress coats, and drew off the whitest imaginable pair of kid gloves, when he sat down to the piano, subsiding in a sort of bow upon the music-stool, and striking those few, brisk and noisy chords with which such artists proclaim silence and reassure themselves.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • Treadway, London's dapperest beau, was smirking at his own reflection in a small hand mirror he carried, while Ashley, who had drunk more heavily than any of the others, permitted a definite scowl to contract his brows and droop his lips.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

  • In a moment she flounced back, red with shame and anger -- flounced forth from the fairest, whitest, dapperest dairy, wherein was all of the best that the keenest dairy-maid might need.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • In a moment she flounced back, red with shame and anger -- flounced forth from the fairest, whitest, dapperest dairy, wherein was all of the best that the keenest dairy-maid might need.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • Dumbleton, as I rattled along the smooth highway in a trim dog-cart drawn by a splendid black mare, and driven by the silentest and dapperest of East Anglian grooms.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • Dumbleton, as I rattled along the smooth highway in a trim dog-cart, drawn by a splendid black mare and driven by the silentest and dapperest of East Anglian grooms.

    Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884

  • He bowed and smiled in the most unexceptionable of white chokers and the dapperest of dress coats, and drew off the whitest imaginable pair of kid gloves, when he sat down to the piano, subsiding in a sort of bow upon the music-stool, and striking those few, brisk and noisy chords with which such artists proclaim silence and reassure themselves.

    Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

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