PRINCES, PAUPERS & HED MAYNER JACKETS

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I'm not and have never been rich enough to wear anything like this Workwear Jacket from Israeli designer Hed Mayner without feeling as though I'm an imposter, caught up in some sort of needlessly elaborate The Prince and the Pauper style switcheroo. Whatchu know about that Offal Court trap, bruh? Whatchu know about swapping places with prepubescent princes who happen to look exactly like you, fam? Whatchu know about adjudicating serious matters of state before you even sprout your first pube, homeslice? I'll answer for you: probably nothing. Why are novelists and playwrights so obsessed with doppelgängers? Twain, Dickens, Shakespeare --all of them based entire plots around doppelgängers, due to their apparent belief that when people encounter their physical doubles, hijinks cannot help but ensue. It won't go down like that with me. If you're reading this and are my doppelgänger, you better watch your fucking back, because I'm coming to get you. There can only be one me. Pudding Lane stand up -RB