The flannel seems a little big for him (the sleeves look long), so maybe it’s Sam’s? The cuff comes out much farther than it usually does on him.
He was originally wearing Bobby’s clothes, I presume, because his dug out of his own grave clothes were kind of shot when he goes to meet Sam but then he’s changed again after he and Sam hug it out.
After I made this, it was really bugging me because I was pretty convinced that brown jacket was Sam’s too (it’s buttoned back in the first gifs up there because it’s too long, I guess) and lo and behold
Sam’s corduroy jacket, which we see a few times throughout the series, but this one in particular was 3.10. And we can see it has the fleece lining.
which we can see is in the jacket Dean’s wearing, as the edge flaps in the wind, in 4.01 iafter Sam and Dean leave the demon cafe
And while we’re at it, that’s definitely Sam’s shirt too. Sam wore it in 2.04
The diamond buttons (I know the colors don’t look the same, but that’s because of my poor giffing skills shhhh)
There, curiosity and deep obsession with everything Dean Winchester satisfied.
Dean in Sam’s too-big clothes is fucking adorable. I know that’s not really the point of this. But that’s my first take-away.
It was kind of the point, no lie here. I am loving how the cuffs are too long he looks like a little kid in Sam’s clothes. It’s definitely adorable.
This makes so much sense though? Dean’s clothes are who knws where after he gets back from the dead and he wears Sam’s. I love this kind of detail in the costuming…
Wow, this post just blew my mind. The attention to detail in every department of this show blows my mind. Mind blown. Fuck.
What I enjoy most about the symbolical implications too is that Dean isn’t dressed in his own clothes when he meets Cas – properly face to face – for the first time. He’s dressed in clothes that are too big for him (like when he donned John’s leather jacket) and he’s trying to get back into his own skin again. The point here being that he actually won’t be allowed to. Cas is coming into his life to push for change and it may have taken a decade, but Dean’s finally getting into his own skin, his true shape, thanks to this angel of his.
Even though this symbology is an accidental byproduct of the absolutely sensible choice to put Dean in someone else’s threads after he’s been gone for four months and doesn’t exactly have his old wardrobe handy, it’s still a rather lovely coincidence.
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