The Toast has over 100 examples of the genre, including “The Adventures Of An Irish Smock, Interspersed With Whimsical Anecdotes Of A Nankeen Pair Of Breeches,” “The Charms Of Dandyism; Or Living In Style. By Olivia Moreland, Chief Of The Female Dandies” and “Fashionable Infidelity.” No wonder novels caused a moral panic akin to reefer madness, Seduction of the Innocents, PMRC music-bans and video-game violence hysteria.
