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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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?

In 1965 Tom ... 3.9 percent, per capita disposable income is at a high, and according to Gallup more people are satisfied with the direction of the country than at any time in 13 years. Tom Wolfe ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New ... Wolfe himself dressed for company — his trademark a pale three-piece suit, impossibly high shirt collar, two-tone shoes and ...

Author Tom Wolfe speaks during a post-screening discussion ... Known as a natty dresser in his signature white three-piece suits and spectator shoes, Wolfe exhibited a bon vivant, man-about ...