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Amonth ago,I bought a white suit.Cheap it was:just over 100 bucks at the downtown Brooklynbranch of Daffy’s,the discount-clothing store,oneof the best-shops in New York City.Now,a white suit,however inexpensive,is always anabsurd impracticality,even an act of defiance against allpracticality.It is also,in life as in movies and books,neverneutral.Like a white Rolls Royce,for example,a white suitconnotes grandness,tackiness,egotism,sex,and cash.Such aconfluence is found in Fitzgerald’s first presentation of Gatsby,dressed to impress Daisy in a “white-flannel suit,silver shirt,and a gold-colored tie.There was no way,that afternoon,that Jay Gatsby could have worn dark blue.
Amonth ago, I bought a white suit. Check it was: just over 100 bucks at the downtown Brooklynbranch of Daffy’s, the discount-clothing store, oneof the best-shops in New York City. Now, a white suit, yet inexpensive, is always an absurd impracticality, even an act of defiance against all paracticality. It is also, as life as in movies and books, neverneutral. Like a white Rolls Royce, for example, a white suitconnotes grandness, tackiness, egotism, sex, and cash.Such aconfluence is found in Fitzgerald’s first presentation of Gatsby, dressed to impress Daisy in a ”white-flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold-colored tie. There was no way, that afternoon, that Jay Gatsby could have worn dark blue.