So Who Wears A White Suit And Why?

White suits may not be your style. You may feel uncomfortable wearing a white suit, but many people do wear white suits. So what is that attracts certain people to wear a lovely white suit.

1. If a woman wearing all white is a statement of innocence – then conversely a man in a white suit could be a statement they are looking for sex, love, money, fame or notoriety.
2. A white suit is also a sure way to draw attention to oneself, or maybe be somebody else in which to hide your own inadequacies.
3. A white suit wearer back in the 17th century was the great diarist Samuel Pepys. He was definitely  a man who wanted to be noticed.
4. White suits can have an uplifting effect on the spirit, instead of the continual sight of drab dark clothing.
5. Like every type of suit – the White Suit is a uniform not of the office, but like in the movies (The Godfather, Scarface, The Great Gatsby) its image therefore is timeless.
6. Power is also connected with the white suit of American Presidents Truman and FDR and the plantation owners in the Caribbean and the American Deep South. Don’t forget the perennial white suited
   Englishman in the British Foreign Office as Our Man in Havana.
7. Why buy a suit that by nature cannot stay white or clean for long. Perhaps that’s part of the charm to be a little grubby quickly.
8. In the Man in the White Suit Alec Guinness invents a White Suit that is grime resistant. He and his invention are crushed by mill owners who see him ruining their business and profits.
9. So when you ask who and wears a White Suit and why – do you see the same anomalies that the mill owners saw in the dangers of the white suit wearer, being a threat to those around them.