Cope, a lifelong music professor, wears a denim jacket, floral button-up, white stubble and a sly smile.

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There's like your classic, you know, denim jacket, heavy, sort of, metal guys.

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But with its suggestion of the "Canadian tuxedo" (the term for a denim jacket paired with jeans), head-to-toe chambray may require a mental leap.

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Wolfowitz sat down next to a slight middle-aged man in a fraying denim jacket and a black wool cap, who said that his name was Bedir Yasa and that until recently he had been living on the streets.

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He recreated the classic navy jacket in dark denim.

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In the coat department, a 20-something couple (he in black mohair, she in denim shorts and red tights) argue loudly about the merits of a fake-fur jacket, while a couple of German tourists trundle by with flapper-style dresses slung over the top of their suitcases.

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