Seinfeld shirt now an icon

Published: Friday, Dec. 31 2004 12:00 a.m. MST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Move over, ruby slippers. That puffy shirt's moving in.

The outlandishly unfashionable shirt worn by Jerry Seinfeld on his hit TV show went on display Friday at the Smithsonian, alongside Kermit the Frog, Archie Bunker's chair and Dorothy's magic slippers from "The Wizard of Oz."

At the end of its nine-season run, "Seinfeld" — the "show about nothing" — left lots of well-loved lines but few tangible relics suitable for enshrinement in the National Museum of American History.

Thus, The Puffy Shirt, which appeared briefly in a single episode. It serves as an icon not only of "Seinfeld" but American popular culture.

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