Aging & Wisdom Quote by Dylan McDermott

McDermott’s line is a tidy piece of celebrity candor: a confession of taste that doubles as image management. “The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me” sounds, on its face, like a curveball in a culture trained to equate “sexy” with exposure. Victorian fashion was all constraint and suggestion - high collars, corsetry, layers that turn the body into a secret. The subtext is less about museum-level fetish and more about the appeal of ritualized anticipation: desire produced by what’s withheld, not what’s displayed. He’s signaling an attraction to a kind of theatrical femininity, where style is a script and seduction happens through implication.

Then comes the quick release valve: “but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.” That “also” matters. It’s not a contradiction; it’s a safety clause. Jeans are democratic, contemporary, and legible as “normal.” In one sentence he gets to be the guy with an offbeat, slightly bookish kink for period aesthetics, while reassuring everyone he’s not so rarefied he can’t appreciate everyday modern sex appeal. It’s fantasy with an exit ramp.

Contextually, this is a classic actor move: cultivate specificity without alienation. The Victorian reference flatters him as a man of taste; the jeans line keeps him grounded and hetero-relatable. Beneath the flirtation is a quieter cultural tell: we keep oscillating between nostalgia for rules and craving for ease, wanting both the corset’s drama and denim’s freedom.