Who is Your Accidental Style Icon?

On the topic of sesame seeds and their lack of ability to grow into anything identifiable, comedian Mitch Hedberg once asked, “What the fuck is a sesame?”

“It’s a place,” he answered himself. Specifically, a street. It’s probably located somewhere in the underbelly of Manhattan’s Chinatown or West Village seeing as no one knows how to get there per the show’s jingle, but in the same way that Sesame Street’s location is hidden, so too is its identity as a house of Accidental Fashion Icons.

Case in point: Frank Oz, literal right hand man to the elevated puppet Bert (who happens to be dressed like Leandra). His resume also includes such impressive accolades as: being the voice of Yoda, creating and bringing to life Muppet characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear along with Jim Henson in The Muppet Show, ditto Cookie Monster, Bert/Leandra and Grover in Sesame Street. He also directed the 1986 best-movie-ever Little Shop of Horrors, though note that all of this comes from Wikifreakia, so as with Penn Badgley, who really knows when he — or the powers that be — last updated his page.

But this is about his style. Oz (of whom Arrested Development character Tobias Funke, another accidental icon, greatly resembles) assumes the “accidental” part of his title because he couldn’t have possibly predicted that the 1970s would swing back into fashion in 2015. A quick Google image-search will show you that the man loved indoor scarves, headbands, wore his jackets over his shoulders and was an early proponent of the backpack.

But can this actually make someone an icon? Maybe not — we’ve asked a similar question before — though it seems to go without saying that his outfit certainly is iconic. It’s head-to-toe indicative of both an era passed and Pre-Fall 2015.

You can even go so far as to buy his outfit right now.

We’ve got the pants:

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The jacket:

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The shoes:




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And the turtlenecks! Would you just look at these sassy models?

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They are laughing because their neck-shirts transcend time, and I am laughing because I’m clinically insane.

What about you? Who is your accidental outfit icon? Include a pic or GIF and let’s bask in all of the ways that our apples fell, as predicted, uncomfortably close to the tree.