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Fuhgeddaboutit: Alleged Mobsters' Bad Fashion Sense

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Photographs of suspects arrested in the FBI's organized crime takedown, from left, Edward Aulisi, Angelo Spata, and Richard Dehmer (AP)

The Post has a hilarious article about the horrifying state of alleged mobster fashion, lamenting that the days of sharply dressed wise guys—a la the Dapper Don John Gotti, Jr. in his Italian suits and Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano who "looked sharp in three-piece suits and starched white shirts"—are over, at least judging from photographs of those arrested in the federal authorities' massive organized crime takedown last week. Seriously—if your mob nickname is "Fatty" (or "Lumpy" or "Fats"), isn't it too expected that you'll be wearing a boring black t-shirt during your arrest?

And move over, Michael Kors: GQ's Will Welch slams the "slobsters," “This is the worst of American style. They don’t even deserve to be loan sharks.” Mafia chronicler Arthur Nash added, “My first thought was that they’d busted up a tailgating party." Welch also said of Edward Aulisi, allegedly part of the NJ crew, "No one is fighting to buy the rights to make a movie about a guy in a hunting jacket... You don’t want your lawyer to look twice as respectable as you." But didn't HBO subscribers love seeing Tony Soprano in his bathrobe?

There's also a slideshow of the "Dapperless Dons"—Nash says of Michael “Jello” Kuhtenia, "There were 16 indictments, although this might justify a 17th." And in April 2010, alleged associates of the Gambino crime family were arrested for prostitution and murder—lots of hoodies and sweatshirts then, too.

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  • Peanut_Butter

    You guys all missed Mr. Bean in the middle picture!

  • mrmanhattan

    No Yankees hats? I am surprised!

  • robingee

    Hey, they can't all be Silvio Dante.

  • Inconcievable de Impublishable

    Guys who go to Rutgers and don't graduate should have to have an R tattooed on their foreheads as a warning to others about their association with organized crime.

  • cr17

    ""No one is fighting to buy the rights to make a movie about a guy in a hunting jacket."

    Remember that seen in The Sopranos where they have to hunt down that Russian dude, and the Bobby Schirpa character shows up wearing hunting gear? Amazing!

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