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"When we first saw this photo of Bradley Cooper, taking a phone call on the West Side Highway early in the morning, we put his intarsia Eagles pom-pom beanie in a certain box. Like, sometimes you just have to pull on whatever is within arm’s reach and get out of the house so you can make a call, or get a coffee, or think through all the loud things you said at that dinner party last night. In this context, it’s sort of okay to look a little insane, even kind of cool. Cooper seems like a real person here, and one we'd want to be friends with.\n\nTurns out Cooper—GQ-appointed [2015 Most Stylish Man Alive](https://www.gq.com/story/most-stylish-list-ryan-gosling-kanye-west)—has been wearing his team spirit all over town, however. To concerts, in taxicabs, with his girlfriend Irina Shayk. All over the damn place.\n\n\n\n[#image: /photos/564ca23789c5419c6573cc66]\n\nNow, we stand behind Cooper’s sense of style (who else can pull off [double prints like this](https://www.gq.com/story/bradley-cooper-patterned-suit)?) but we’re going to advise you not to cop this particular move. Pom-pom beanies are dope as hell, and supporting your home team is every person’s right (some might say *obligation*) but together in one article of clothing it has a distinct frat-guy quality. Cooper can get away with it because he’s carved out of marble, and [genuinely nice-seeming](https://www.gq.com/story/jennifer-lawrence-bradley-cooper-gender-pay-gap), but men of the general population, consider sticking to solids or stripes. (Unless you’re stepping outside at 6am to walk the dog in which case, as you were.)\n\n+++inline-video\n\n\n\n[#cnevideo: /cnevideos/5626c1a2a7113fb922cd922d]\n\n+++\n\n"
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