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Jesse James Is Undoing the Hard Work of the World’s Best Couturiers

When stories of Jesse James’s affair broke, James could be seen wandering in and out of his motorcycle shop every day wearing a pair of soiled overalls. And they weren’t designer Ralph Lauren ones or couture Jean Paul Gaultier croc ones, they were from his own line of workwear that you can find at Wal-Mart, of all places. Writer Sean Macaulay pontificates at length about the implications of James’s breakup overalls in the Daily Beast:

Jessegate is just the latest, and I would argue inevitable, setback in the centuries-long quest to gentrify overalls.


Someone had to go that deep.

Enough with the Overalls! [Daily Beast]

Jesse James Is Undoing the Hard Work of the World’s Best Couturiers