As we near the end of 2025, one outfit formula emerged as the year’s reliable go-to for date nights, work functions, and holiday parties: a blazer, a dress shirt with optional tie, and a snug pair of jeans. (Or, as I like to call it, the Fran Lebowitz special.) The jacket-and-jeans combination is hard to ignore given that it is timelessly sharp and totally attainable—you, dear reader, likely have all three of these items in your closet right now—and yet it’s on some of our favorite guys like Robert Pattinson, A$AP Rocky, and, just this week, on Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo.
For his appearance on Good Morning America on Wednesday, 23-year-old Matarazzo—who portrays the beloved, plucky Dustin Henderson on the Netflix hit—executed the formula perfectly. Styled by Seppe Tirabassi, the actor spruced up to promote the show’s highly anticipated final season almost entirely in J.Crew: a crisp white dress shirt, a boyish navy blazer with gold buttons, a silky striped tie, and a perfectly rugged pair of medium-wash blue jeans. His loafers, meanwhile, were from another mall stalwart: Aldo.
