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"  From the April 2013 issue When Ronald Reagan sat down with Mikhail Gorbachev for their last head-to-head in 1988, he brought the Russian leader a parting gift: a denim jacket, something so rugged and cool \u2014 so effortlessly American \u2014 that ol&amp;#039; Gorby was moved to dissolve the U.S.S.R. right then and there. (Wait \u2014 that is what happened, right?) The denim jacket has been stuck since in a kind of sartorial limbo \u2014 is it nostalgic? ironic? fashiony? \u2014 until just recently. Designers such as Italo Zucchelli of Calvin Klein have updated it with shorter, slimmer cuts, variegated shading, and weathered textures. The best versions have the close fit and lived-in character we look for in our clothes right now, and while they tend to look best with chinos or cords, you could even wear them with jeans of another color. Just don&amp;#039;t overthink it. Look what happened to Gorbachev. Denim jacket ($850) by Calvin Klein Collection; cotton T-shirt ($38 for pack of 3) by Calvin Klein Underwear; cotton jeans ($209) by J Brand. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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