Jason Alexander Is Still Wearing George Costanza’s Wardrobe in Real Life

Throughout the course of Seinfeld’s nine seasons, George Costanza showed himself to be many things: a pathological liar, a hopelessly selfish boyfriend, an unsung advocate for shower urination rights. But it wasn’t until fairly recently that George began to get credit for being a fashion icon, too. 

A number of fashion experts have singled out Frank and Estelle Costanza’s only (surviving) child for his impeccably tailored suits, and for possibly influencing hip-hop artists in the 2010s with his flannel shirts and boldly velvet-based ensembles. 

But there’s seemingly no bigger fan of George’s wardrobe than actor Jason Alexander. How do we know that? Well, because he’s still wearing some of George’s clothes to this day. Just not the stuff made by Gore-Tex.

While speaking with his Really? no, Really? podcast co-host Peter Tilden, Alexander casually remarked that the shirt he was wearing was one of George’s. While he was seemingly joking, Tilden flat out asked him how many of George’s clothing items are in his closet. Alexander’s reply? “Dozens.”

Again, Alexander may have been exaggerating the real number for comic effect, but he “honestly” claimed that he did have some of George’s clothes mixed in with his own, including two sport coats and two pairs of sneakers. At that point, he lifted his leg and showed off his sneakers to the camera. “In fact, I swear to God this is one of them,” Alexander claimed. “Right here, if you’re watching on YouTube, you have seen these sneakers on national television.”

Whether or not Alexander was actually wearing a 35-year-old pair of screen-used Seinfeld sneakers isn’t 100 percent clear. It sure seems unlikely, but then again, Tilden did ask Alexander if they could put the shoes up on eBay to raise money for charity. At that point, Alexander revealed that he took home another part of his Seinfeld costume, which would fetch an even higher price at auction. “What you want are the glasses,” Alexander stressed. “I have the glasses. They’re in a safe deposit box.”

Presumably he meant the glasses that George wore for the majority of the series, and not the Malcolm X glasses from the pilot episode, or the women’s frames made by the Gloria Vanderbilt Collection, which George mistakenly purchased.

Alexander swiping a pair of glasses and a few outfits from the show likely wasn’t a huge deal, especially considering that Jerry Seinfeld’s souvenirs from the Seinfeld set included his character’s sofa (the one without the pee stain) and the apartment’s entire front wall. 

At least Alexander’s backstage thievery didn’t require him to rent a U-Haul.