Famous People Who Have Worn A White Suit

Where to start, some of the famous and better known folk that have doned the white suit and why?

Indeed why wear a white suit when it could be deemed totally unsuitable for todays living?

The answer may lie with the person that is wearing the garment. These people are normally in a position of power, active in the arts, theatre, politics,or just ordinary day to day individuals that want to make a statement. They mainly want to stand out in the crowd.

1. Have we forgotten Howard Hughes born 1905, he was a sometime pilot, movie producer, playboy, eccentric, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He was also famous for building the Spruce Goose – a massive flyingboat that only ever flew once with Hughes at the controls. Mr Hughes wore a white suit. 
2. Mark Twain – the American novelist best known for creating the novel Hucklebury Finn. He once said that a group of men in evening clothes looked liked a flock of crows and is just about as inspiring. Mark Twain wore a White Suit.
3. It has been said that Tom Wolfe was the most famous wearer of the White Suit in recent times, who like Mark Twain was an author. Samuel Pepys was  the most famous diarist in British history he also wore a White Suit.
4. Sir Bob Geldoff of the Boomtown Rats, and probably better known worldwide for his involvement in the Live Aid charity movment. He wore a white suit.
5. Micheal Winner the outstanding film director, food and hotel critic. He wore a white suit.
6. Bjorn Ulvaeus – one of the founders of Abba who needs no introduction – he wore a white suit.
7. Richard Ingrams – co founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye, and Ian Hislop contributor
   and tv panilist – they both donned white suits.
8. Entrepreneur Richard Branson, who has created one of the worlds biggest and well known image brands Virgin Worldwide – he wore a white suit.
9. Peter Stringfellow who in his own way has become the most famous nightclub owner in the world – he wore a white suit.
10. Then without doubt the most well known man in the world – His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, he can be seen on a regular basis wearing a white suit on his overseas travels, or relaxing at the Polo and numerous other sporting or social events. He regularly wears a white suit.

What then are we to make of the White Suit wearer? Is he the epitome of the Englishman lording it over the British Empire. The Empire may have gone, but the White Suit hasn”t.

Is he the type in a rumpled suit straight out of the pages of Graham Greene’s fiction, or is he an American imitating
English heirs sitting in Saigon cafes reporting on the Vietnam war. The wearer may well be anyone of all those things, but it is also a fact that a White Suit is something and everything in the eyes of the wearer as these well known people have illustrated.