… the richest-looking ensemble he possessed: a navy hard-finished worsted…

… the richest-looking ensemble he possessed: a navy hard-finished worsted suit with pinstripes, nipped at the waist, a tab-collared shirt with a white collar and spaced-out pale-blue stripes on the shirtfront, a solid French-blue crepe de chine silk necktie from Charvet in Paris…

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Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full (1999) p. 97

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