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Fashion Week 2013: A Look At What Bank Robbers Are Wearing To Work

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Aaron Marks

Published Feb 6, 2013

Modified Feb 6, 2013

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Straight out of a J. Peterman catalog, this man, suspected of robbing the Valley National Bank on the Upper East Side, brings big-city panache to his small-time heist, sporting dark sunglasses fit for a Shanghai nightclub owner kicking the DJ's teeth in, a navy blue newsboy cap he tore off the head of the double-crossing bookie he shot behind the car wash, and a dapper khaki duster that conceals a multitude of mysteries within its dark, felonious folds.1/28/13, Upper East Side Valley National Bank

 

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Open wide for Fashion Week, that biannual clusterfuckalypse of shows you can't get into and inevitable Lohan incidents you can't avoid knowing about. All the emaciated inanity kicks off tonight, so this seems as good a time as any to take an in-depth look at the styles rocked by a set of fashionistas who don't get much representation on the runways: Bank robbers. From Costanza lookalikes to Goblin masks, last year security cameras caught bank robbers in styles high to low. Here are our fashionably felonious favorites from the past twelve months.

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