Accidental Style Icon: Tom Wolfe

When people talk about finding a uniform and sticking to it, they are often presented with the kind of blasé clothing options that make you second guess the efficacy of a uniform to begin with. Yes, sure, it’s easy to wear a black t-shirt and jeans every single day but it’s also distinctly boring. And you know what they say about distinct boredom, right?

It sucks. It’s lifeless. It’s Prozac sans-Pro. Which just makes it zac. And zac without Pro is futile. Like a uniform you grow to hate due to the banality of its character. It takes the YOLO out of getting dressed and turns clothes into the fabric equivalent of like, jury duty.

Who wants to be reminded — or remind others! — of jury duty, I ask?

This is perhaps why so many of us, no matter how hard we attempt to extol its virtues, shy away from the uniform.

See, but then there’s Tom Wolfe (important pioneer in the construction of new journalism, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, for the uninitiated), who took the concept of a uniform and turned it on its head by introducing a brand new theory on wearing the same thing every day: why not YOLO-dress within the confines of your selected garment-edit, right? Where we think dark when we see suits, he thinks white.

A crisp white suit! Every single day! Because, really, who’s to say that the uniform must be as dull as a slice of hour-old multi-grain toast?

Grab brevity by the Mardi Gras necklace.Take the complex and make it as simple as a decision that you make every day

To be

Reliable

And to look

Extraordinary.

I leave you with a quote by the ineffable author: “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”

Photographed by Krista Anna Lewis

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