Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1888 — The Earliest Dudes on Record. [ARTICLE]

The Earliest Dudes on Record.

The dude, the dandy, the macaroni, the blood, are modern inventions in literature, although not in real life. Although they have blossomed luxuriantly in all ages, they have left but slight impress upon the literature of the day, and such gleams as we get are but side lights. Perhaps the earliest dudes of whom we have any record are the Egyptian and Assyrian kings, who were prodigiously fond of carving their own portraits upon walls, dressed in the most elaborate man millinery of the period, and although the cuneiform and hieroglyphic records are scarcely literature, they serve to show how exceedingly fond Assurbanipal, Thothmes, and their congeners were of swelling themselves up in the public eyes— The Haberdasher.