Is it a statement maker or a fashion maker?
Dostoevsky said "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.", referring to the Nikolai Gogol's famous short story, The Overcoat. 
Is Austin making an homage to the story and the film adaptation of Gogol.
Gogol's story takes readers through the mundane and alienating world of a bureaucratic office in St. Petersburg Russia where an awkward, impoverished clerk must scrimp and save in order to afford a badly needed new winter coat. As the story progresses, you enter a fairy-tale world of supernatural revenge, where the clerk's corpse is seen wandering city streets ripping coats off the backs of passersby. Gogol's story is both comic and horrific—at once a scathing social satire, moralistic fable, and psychological study.
Is the raggedy sleeves symbolic of the struggle of the working class or just sleeves too short?
Then again it maybe a fashion statement - because who needs an overcoat in California?
But of course he might have been giving a hint about a personal connection with a movie and overcoats...
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