Summary
Tom Wolfe wears white linen suits. On every dust jacket and in every press photo he is in his uniform -- that of an American dandy. Louche characters in F Scott Fitzgerald novels wore white linen. Bertie Wooster would have owned a white linen suit but I'm not sure how comfortable he would have felt in it -- Jeeves wouldn't have liked it and Aunt Agatha would have thought it ridiculous.
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Dare to Wear White
When I was 13 my father took me to Venice. I remember canals and smelly water and pigeons and an organ by Guardi that -- apparently -- we were lucky to see.
I remember that my father and I painted the same view of a church ...See the full content of this document
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