Beau Brummell’s statue on Jermyn Street

If you wander along posh Jermyn Street lined with men’s outfitters, you’ll spy a statue of Beau Brummell, a man who defined the very idea of dressing well and being a decorative dandy.Today to be a dandy is often assumed to mean someone who overdresses, but at the time it was someone who dresses so sensibly that they almost fade into the background as nothing is out of place. A perfect ornament for a room.
And it was George ‘Beau’ Brummel who set the trend for elegant dre