More often than not, he turns up at black-tie dinners dressed in a polo shirt, black corduroys, and sneakers.

WSJ: Art's New Pecking Order

Each day begins with well-established routines: He eats breakfast at the exact same time while catching up on the news and donning his uniform a tailored black suit with tapered pants, slim-fit white dress shirt and skinny black tie.

WSJ: Brian Grazer

He had a long beard and wore a black shirt with no tie, and was accompanied by his parents and brother.

WSJ: Bail hearings for 2 men in Canada terror plot

And hits a snag, in the form of Alexei, a crime boss straight out of central casting (black shirt, white tie, dark glasses and driving an outsize jeep with tinted windows).

ECONOMIST: A krisha over your head

Albert is a waiter in an upmarket Dublin hotel, and the uniform adds starch to her otherworldliness: grief-black suit and tie, snowy shirt, and, for outdoors, a rolled umbrella and an ill-fitting bowler hat.

NEWYORKER: Material Girls

"The white shirt sees a return to the traditional image of British policing with a collar and tie replacing the black zip-up polo shirt, " she said.

BBC: Norfolk police uniform shirts set for switch

He had on a black sack suit, a cotton shirt with collar points, and a floppy black bow tie.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

He was dressed in a brown blazer, a black shirt, and a red tie.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

He wore a blue blazer, blue crew neck sweater, white shirt and tie, gray slacks, black shoes.

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When Jay-Z strode in, well over 6 feet tall in a tailored blue suit, blue tie, white shirt, blue pocket square and black loafers, you could hear whispers buzz around.

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