From time to time, DCist examines somewhat perplexing clothing trends observed in the area. Our current fascination? The denim tuxedo.

Ah…the denim tuxedo. This look is also popularly known as the Canadian Tuxedo, as referred to in the 2002 film Super Troopers, but to avoid stereotyping and wrongly accusing our northern neighbors, we have chosen to protect the innocent with a more P.C. term. Unfamiliar with the term? It refers to denim on denim: jean jacket with jeans.

DCist observed various versions of the denim tuxedo no fewer than 11 times this past weekend, from the District to NoVa to suburban Maryland, crossing both geographic or socioeconomic bounds. But, as we learned from years of after-school specials, just because everyone’s doing it doesn’t make it okay (yes, this applies to more than drug use and teen sex).

We understand the clothing conundrums presented by this in-between weather: too cold to go out sans jacket, too warm for a winter coat. And we know you love your premium denim, as seemingly every media outlet from the Post to Access Hollywood has been examining the popularity of über expensive denim and consumers’ ongoing quest to copy celebrity asses. But is the denim tuxedo just too much of a good thing? And if you endorse the jean on jean look, do other rules apply? Must the denim items in question be of different rinses?

We turn to you, our fashionably mouthy readers to sound off, because like it or not, the denim tuxedo appears to be joining us in larger numbers this fall/winter season.