It's said that Sebastian from Brideshead Revisited was based on this real life dandy, the ultimate G, and I don't mean gangster.
Read this compelling Times article that describes this affected, precious pansy better than I ever could. How I would have loved to have painted the town mauve with this brightest young thing or to have read poetry at the foot of his bed, which he was rumored to have spent the entirety of his last seventeen years pampered and resting upon.
But what do you think?