Dapper has become this horrible by-product of the menswear trend and with it the notion that being ‘dapper’ equates to some improved social status* – but to whom is another question altogether. It’s no longer a simple description of a man’s neat appearance, but a microcosm of sensationalist menswear try hards who, in an effort to sound or appear suave, are in fact, anything but.
'Gee, don't you look dapper in that ill-fitted statement suit, I never through paisley on paisley would work, but it just does'.
'Gargantuan Windsor knots, and pointy jestershoes are just so dapper'.
'I’m so pumped for Pitti in June, said the #dapper gent'.