| Dandies is a serious understatement of this African expression of what the French call amour de soi, and I think of as being a gentleman. |
They're the stars of a new Guinness campaign and are devoted to dressing like gentlemen. Stephen Doig introduces the Sapeurs, a curious sartorial society in the Republic of Congo
This is the other Congo, by the way. DRC was a Belgian colony, while the present-day Republic of Congo was French. I believe that for a while it was People's Republic of Congo, but my mind gets fuzzier as I get older. Brazzaville and Kinshasa are on opposite sides of the Congo River, but they're two separate cities. As far as I know, nothing ever happens in Brazzaville Congo. |