From the May 2, 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“The greatest dandy in the world is said to be Prince Albert of Thurn, Germany. This fastidious young man attires himself in a new suit of clothes every day, enough yearly to keep twenty experienced workmen going and to run up a bill of $15,000. Each suit of wearing apparel is highly perfumed with the odor of roses at $25 an ounce. He wears no less than $1,000 neckties during a year, being on average of three every day. A laundry employing twelve people is kept specially for washing his soiled linen, which he never wears more than twice, and his cast-off boots number 200 pair s a year.”