4 December 2017
On August 4th, 2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead tweeted, "Saw lady reading my book & was gonna say hi but I'm wearing the same shirt as in author photo & didn't want her to think I only had 1 shirt." The tweet garnered 16,000 retweets and 111,000 likes. "This would so be me if I ever wrote a book," responded one user. "Famous author problems," another said. Whitehead's joke is relatable to anyone who has experienced sartorial anxiety (everyone), or is haunted by the line "Lizzie McGuire, you are an outfit repeater!" (me). But it especially struck a chord within the literary community, where author photos immortalize one outfit in print - for as long as it takes to write the next book.
