It’s a standard that I have to maintain.” He has set expectations for himself. As Barbano ’18 explained, “Regardless of where I am or how I feel, I dress the same. And so I set out to find out what makes a dapper dude by talking to a few notables of our dapper dude contingent: Jameson Lisak ’15, Louis Lainé ’16 and Luke Barbano ’18.ĭapper dudes are consistent. I was curious about that effort, which seemed to set Swat’s dapper dudes apart from many other Swat dudes. To be dapper isn’t an automatic, environment-ascribed choice here it takes concerted, conscious effort. To be dapper is to take traditional to the verge of eccentric, especially in the context of Swarthmore, where traditional men’s professional wear is a rare student dress choice. Maybe something of my personal image of dapper is captured here - it’s something hidden beneath a veneer of well-prepared traditional men’s style. And “neat and trim” – those words have a sort of old-fashioned strangeness to them, after all. It reminds me of an article I read a few months ago that talks about the prevalence of pre-professional, interview-ready neatness amongst students on Ivy League campuses.īut you can read a little more there besides the neat and trim - “dapper” encompasses an entire mode of comportment. And so I gaze around campus with even more admiration than ever before for our dapper dudes.ĭapper: (typically of a man) neat and trim in dress, appearance, or bearing (OED). And when the cold hits, one of the first things I want to abandon when relinquishing my fluffy comforter every morning is any clothing that doesn’t approximate that comforter as closely as possible. I was sitting around a Sharples dinner table avoiding the 5:00pm darkness today, seeing my friends scarfing down carbs in sweatshirts.
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