Dapper Dan

plural Dapper Dans

1. informalA man who dresses and is groomed in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.

   “We call him Dapper Dan,” the chief pointed to a well-dressed man wearing a white shirt, tie, and a three-piece pin-striped suit.

   2010, Charles F. Lee, The Adventures of Ickle, Packy, Pickle and Gooch, →ISBN, page 49

   2 more examples

   Timothy C. Kelly cultivated a taste for the chivalry and silk handkerchiefs of his parents' generation. "He was a man who enjoyed the finer things in life," said his wife, Julie. ". . . He was a Dapper Dan."

   2001 December 18, “Timothy C. Kelly: A Dapper Throwback”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2012

   [T]hey sat together in the front row, together with a very elderly fellow of the kind Carmine always called a “Dapper Dan”—a bit like the 1930s movie star, William Powell, even including the little mustache.

   2011, Colleen McCullough, Naked Cruelty, →ISBN