The Case of King Charles' Tailor and Sharp-Dressed Lawyer Ed Hayes
“Bonfire of the Vanities” inspiration Ed Hayes thought Anderson & Sheppard was holding his suits hostage during a legal dispute.
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“Bonfire of the Vanities” inspiration Ed Hayes thought Anderson & Sheppard was holding his suits hostage during a legal dispute.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyThe real-life model for the street-smart New York attorney in Tom Wolfe’s novel Bonfire of the Vanities thought he was the victim of suit-napping perpetrated by the new king of England’s favorite tailor.Ed Hayes ordered the suits in question a year and half ago, when Anderson & Sheppard was making one of its regular sales trips to New York from its fabled shop in London. He picked out the material: gray for one, blue for the other, both wit
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