Welcome /Bienvenido !
I wouldn’t guess that the suit I put on that day would pave the way for launching a serious blog for elegance. Thanks to the compliments I received day by day, people around me started approaching me for tips and advices . Then , the circle has grown ,from high level diplomats to bankers and then the idea flourished to open a blog to publicize my opinions , tips , advice and whatsoever. I hail from Istanbul , the ancient city of empires (such ancient that as you dig the ground , the chances are high that you run into some archeological item ) where once the glamour was the unique scenery. This blog is dedicated to classical men’s elegance with a touch of Middle East , Ottoman , Great Orient or whatever you call it, a sort of East meets West , if you like. What you’ll find in this blog is pure elegant style tips , some icons , images and so on.
Part of our texts will be in Spanish , as we welcome a huge audience from Spain and Latin America. So get a cup of coffee or tea , and slowly scroll the blog…Contact me for any question !
Regards ,
Yasin S . T.
ottomandandy@gmail.com
Great Job, thanks for all the ideas… Keep us posted, can’t wait to see the next combination.
Thanks Betty , of course I’ll keep you posted , We have a very rich repertoir 🙂
Hi, nice site, I wonder whose picture is it? A cool guy from history I guess
Hi Colin ,
He is Sultan Abdulmajid . An ottoman sultan that reigned in the late 1860s. The dandiest of all sultans .
Nice picks… Were ottomans looking cool like what you have posted?
It makes me think to go and see in person…
Thanks Sandy . Yes , the ruling class used to look like this. They were quite dandy on their looks . Well, you are always welcome in the Ottoman territories whenever you want. Enjoy the glamour !
Ciao
“I hail from Istanbul , the ancient city of empires (such ancient that as you dig the ground , the chances are high that you run into some archeological item )” Haha! I love this line!
Hi Agalla thanks for the comment. We ll keep you posted with more fun lines. 🙂
Awesome! 🙂
Hi! Thank you for checking out my blog.
You have a pretty cool site!
I wish you all the best, Diana.
Diana hi, thanks for the feedback ..You’re always more than welcome here…
Hey Yasin -thank you so much for stopping by! I just had a look at your blog, it’s such a nice one! Great work!
Wish you a wonderful day and great happiness xx
Love, Anna
Anna welcome thanks for your comments. The same wonderful wishes for you too. Stay tuned.
Great sense of humor besides having a good blog! ❤
Yasemin hi and welcome. Thanks for the heartwarming compliments.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!! You have an interesting take on life, Mr. Ottoman Dandy. I love Turkey so am very pleased to meet you. 🙂
Thanks for the nice compliments. Stay tuned
I think that I am falling in love with your blog. I really like your style. I am addicted to elegance
Warm regards from Romania 🙂
Hi Adeline ,What a heartwarming comment ! yes, I see all your comments, now I am gonna reply them all with pleasure. God bless you. Welcome to the club 🙂
I am glad that you are here :). In this life I like just one kind of things, …. that things that I like from the first time when I see it. Your blog is one of them 🙂 Be happy 🙂
you made me rise to sky … Thanks a lot…you also have a great talent.
Your blog respond to one of my old wishes. To see an elegant and stylish blog for men. Now I think that is obviously what kind of people I like… more posts about haute couture for men are much more than welcome. Also traditional costume for men from islamic, ottoman and turkish culture are welcome too. I love embroidery, leather etc. Also your nickname reminds me what “dandy” style means for fashion long time ago
Adeline , it’s a great honor to be appreciated by such a lady like you who has a real taste for elegance. I am fond of fine arts, maybe this is the reason as an instinct that drove me to launch this blog…As you said , I also love islamic and ottoman arts and ornaments as well as baroque and rococo. Ottaman Dandy is a kind of a fusion of styles in just one person . If you have any opinion or inspiration about anything that you want me to publish , just let me know . It’s a great deal to hear from the audience and take advice.
Ciao bella !
There’s a only few blogs of men style that I like. This is definetely one of them. Love it!
Hola , gracias por tu commentario. Qué lindo es recibir un complimento de una chica elagante como tu ! We’re doing our best to please you . Ciao y un abrazo muy fuerte a Andalucia ! 🙂
Really liked this blog, gives inspiring ideas. Great combinations, great descriptions, reading them is always pleasure.
Hello welcome , thanks for your comment …. We’re here to inspire you , to make you visualize the styles we’ve been posting daily…Stay tuned for more !
I will!
Dear Yasin,
Thanks for making these beautiful photos available for us. We have a lot to learn from you regarding how to be elegant and chic. I also would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy birthday !!!
Best,
Monica
Hi Monica ,
You are welcome , thank you so much for your best wishes. I imagine that you’re already a refined and elegant lady. Maybe this blog is a proof of my being an Aquarius 🙂 Stay tuned , God bless !!!
Hey, discovered this today, liked the outfits, and how u describe the dressings is fun.
Thanks Asher , yes humor is a nice way to describe and explain fashion .
Good work ottoman dandy, regards to all dandies here.
Thanks Ms. Zaynab , welcome to Ottoman Dandy ! Stay tuned …
Want to say hello from Ontario. I’m a Greek Canadian and my paternal grandparents were from Istanbul. I remember once seeing a picture of the city very similar to what you have posted on your main page…
Hi Agatha welcome to the club ,
Yes its a impressing picture…We receive a lot of positive comments about that . Thank you so much
Thank you so much for visiting my blog! You have such an elegant sense of style, really beautiful. More men need to follow your lead. Thank you again for stopping by!
Thank you very much Whitney. You are always welcome, such an elegant lady.
wow. gorgeous & funny wrapped up in one? you depict a world of inimitable beauty, style & distinction. if only every single man in american would follow both your blog, and your uber-stylish advice!
Thank you very much Ms.Wood. What a great compliment from an elegant American lady ! You honored us with your wonderful words.
well, it’s true! i meant every word, mr. “dandy”! you honor us with your wonderful blog. looking forward to more visual deliciousness.
Of course , we’re doing our best to impress our audience. Stay tuned and feed us with more of your sophisticated comments … Thank you so much and God bless you !
(humbly bow)
This is a beautiful site. I am positive susprised and interested, thanks a lot Yasin.
Thank you and welcome to the club. we expect from you more comments. stay tuned.
Merhaba, bloğun gerçekten çok kaliteli olmuş, emek verildiği, özen gösterildiği belli. İsmi sevdim: giriş sayfasındaki büyüleyici İstanbul manzarasıyla birlikte içerikdeki estetiğin habercisi. Kombinleri de çok zevkli& ilham verici buldum. Modernle klasiği, Akdeniz’ le Kuzeyi, günümüzle Osmanlı döneminin giyim tarzını art arda koyduğun resimlerle buluşturman da, tıpkı farklı kumaş ve zıt renkleri aynı kıyafetlerde buluşturman gibi sıradışı. Alışılageldik ve kolaya kaçılmış hiç bir çalışmaya rastlamadım ki bence birbirine benzeyen ve şeritleşen bir yığın blogdan farkın bu orijinalliği koruman olacak. Takipçilerinin her geçen gün artmasını ve bu fikirleri günlük giyimlerine yansıtmalarını diliyorum, selamlar.
Melike merhaba ,
Yazdığın kelimeler büyüleyici, adeta şiir gibi yazmışsın. Bu yorumun önünde eğilmemek elde değil. Bu yorumun,bizim misyonumuzun kelimelerde vücüt bulmuş hali. Bunu kesin motto haline getireceğiz, bizim aklımızda, gönlümüzden geçenleri okumuşsun ve çok da güzel özetlemişsin. Bu işin arkasında çok büyük emek ve özen olduğu doğru, takipçilerimizin her geçen gün dünyanın dört bir yanında bize gösterdiği teveccüh katlanarak sürüyor. Alanımızda tekiz evet. Tek kaygımız da sanat ve estetik olduğu için, bu konunun tutkunları bizi fazlasıyla takdir ediyor. Tekrar teşekkürler; bu şiirsel yorumların devamını bekliyoruz. Ayrıca arada bir ingilizce de yazabilirsen bizi ihya edersin, bize bir tavsiyen ya da önerin var mı ? Bize ilham verebilcek bir fikir aklına geldiğinde , çekinmeden bize bildirebilirsin, zaten dört koldan sosyal medyada varız. Çok çok selamlar…
Ottoman Dandy
Mr. Yasin, I mean Hail Mr. Ottoman. Thank you for leaving your footprints in my post. I am honoured and touched by your presence. Say hello to all the Whirling Dervish for me in Istanbul. There is so much beauty in your country.
Thank you so much for this moving comment. You’ll see Whirling Dervish pictures here soon . Stay with us, we’d like to see more comments from you. Thanks & Greetings !
❤ your blog!
Thank you Julie..We are waiting more comments from you. Welcome to the club !
Thank you and greetings from Haifa Israel
Welcome and thanks .
Congratulations, Ottoman Dandy!
I have nominated your blog for the Reality Blog Award.
The rules of that award are at
http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/reality-blog-award-thanks-supernova/
Hi Petre,
What an honor for us !!! Thank you so much…
I like Latino/Mediterranean/Persian/Ottoman-looking guys so I really enjoy going through all your photos/posts. Thanks for visiting my blog. 😀
Hi ,welcome thanks for that comment. You honored us .
Well deserved 🙂 Keep blogging!
Hi there, thank you for visiting my blog http://cutisyana.wordpress.com/
You have a very good blog here! 🙂
Hi and welcome …Stay tuned ..
Glad you checked out my blog. Hope to see you back. Love that pix up there. I’ll check later but I bet that is Istanbul. Spent a day and half there once and loved that city and its people….and Efes Beer!
Thank you, yes the big painting is Istanbul. You are always welcome…
Hey man this is great blog! I heart a lot of good things about here, you know the job! I sell shirts in Recife, Brazil. I gonna check your blog. Btw my grandparents come from Turkey, its from place called Malatyavm I think, not sure. Greetings from Brazil!
Gilberto hi and welcome…many regards to brazil..
Thanks for visiting my blog and liking my page, Yasin. Going to follow yours, love its ‘style’.
Thanks chia welcome…Keep in touch…
I love Istanbul! Really nice work on your blog. You definitely have an eye for elegance!
You are always more than welcome Marissa to istanbul.
That painting and prince which seem to came out of an Eastern fairy tale brought me here. Surprised that you have also posted a lot of stylish modernly dressed men. History, art, fashion, style embodied in one blog. Smart idea.
Francis hi and welcome ,
You honored us with your presence. Thank you so much .
Why not thought of before, humor merges with historical trends in fashion. Wish you all the best, regards…
Perihan welcome, what a great comment from you …such an elegant humor 🙂
Paylaştığın tüm fikirler için çok teşekkürler, bence çok iyi giden bir blog.
Ömer Bey, desteğiniz için çok teşekkürler…Evet, her geçen gün inanılmaz bir takipçi kitlesi bize teveccüh ediyor…
Saygılar,
Thank you for visiting my blog. I would never have found you if you hadn’t. I look forward to exploring your site.
Ms Jagg, hi and welcome,
It’s a great honor for us to welcome you here such an elegant lady like you. You ‘ll love our blog, no doubt !
Stay tuned and we wait for your highbrow comments 🙂
This is pretty clever!It’s very useful research material for the book series I’m working on. I never thought I’d be doing research on a blog!
Welcome L.J..,
Make your experiments on us. We are volunteers. You can find what you find in this blog. Stay tuned ! Keep commenting…
Awsome site with delightfull styling input! We will keep coming back.
Best, Arne and Claudia
You are always welcome…
Yasin, thank you for such a beautiful blog! It really is a pleasure!
Nina , I am so much flattered by your comment. Sometimes I fall in despair if this blog can fail and fall apart (you know this feeling of being down ‘n’ out, we all live thru it) , but such comments like yours make me motivated and work more with passion. Your presence here is a great honor for me and a reason why I’m still keeping this blog alive. I extend you a milllion heart-felt thanks…
Regards to Mexico
Great blog ~ It’s so different from other blogs I’ve come across. Will definitely be following…
Thank you so much, what a compliment from you , you are so kind. Your presence is a great honor for us. Stay tuned , we expect comments from you 🙂
Warm regards from Istanbul
Good evening, Yasin,
I love the painting at the top. Travel and transitions! Is it the Bosphorus Sea?
I enjoyed reading your humorous well-thought posts on masculine elegance. Such a pleasure!
Thank you for stopping by my blog and liking the post “In the City … “
Thank you and welcome. Yes,it is Bosphorus. Thanks for the compliments, you are so kind. Stay tuned with more of your elegant comments:). Cheers.
Interesting post and food for thought. Jeans are ubiquitous where I come from, but I take your point that ” Denim has a detractive effect on elegance, it reduces your social value.”.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Love Denise
Welcome Denise, thanks for the comment.
Gorgeous picture across the top of your page! I’m curious, do you know if that is an early picture of Ortakoy?
Hi Danyelle, the scenery in the picture is Tophane and Golden Horn. Also part of Sultanahmet and Süleymaniye can be seen. Have you been to IStanbul?
Yes, we just came back from a trip there in October. I’ve been blogging about it in detail on my site. I do a lot of research into Istanbul and LOVE that picture!!!
I really like the moniker, Ottoman Dandy. Terrific. I’ve been to Istanbul once. It was a lot of fun and the sightseeing was wonderful. One of these days, we’ll be back.
Thank you Mike. You are always welcome in Istanbul.
Very interesting blog. 🙂
Thanks a lot Doug, you’re always welcome…
Thank you for stopping by my blog and the “LIKE” of my post.
You are always welcome.
I really enjoyed your blog. You have very interesting topics and written elegantly. I am so happy our paths met. +follow and thank you for liking my work.
Hi , equally. You are always welcome. Regards to Holland.
what a gorgeous blog
It’s a great honor to welcome you here. Thank you so much you also have that stunning writing style.
Great concept Yasin 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
I love the header image!
Thank you so much Madhu…You are always welcome in Istanbul…
My dear Yasin S.T,
I wonder what made you notice by blog. I seldom, if ever, write about fashion, entertainment and such fluffy stuff. However, I do cherish my visit, while a student, to Istanbul. I don’t think you were born at those lazy, hazy, crazy days of my life.
My best to you.
…and I am Sid Harth@elcidharth.com