The novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died on Monday ... “But then I’d read the piece and it would say, ‘What an interesting man; he wears white suits.’ And so it was a good 10 ...

Tom Wolfe gave few early signs that he would become one of the most widely read and widely imitated American writers of the post-World War II era. His now-familiar trademarks—the white suits ...

“Everybody knows Tom Wolfe—writer for the New York Herald ... t have to travel too far for his accouterments: His three-piece suits (“always a vestee”) and the royal blue topcoat that ...

“Part of [Wolfe’s] skewering of society was to also be absolutely his own man,” says National Portrait Gallery curator Brandon Brame Fortune. “For him, that meant wearing this white ...

By The Associated Press Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of ... Wolfe himself dressed for company — his trademark a pale three-piece suit, impossibly high shirt collar, two-tone shoes ...

Tom Wolfe sold magazines ... Wolfe’s own famous sartorial look, the three-piece white suit, was really a disguise. He called it “neo-pretentious,” but who was he pretending to be?