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.
Dapper dude professional#
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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