It was only a matter of time until #CargoGate reached its way from the offices of the Wall Street Journal to the streets of Boston.

And Mayor Marty Walsh will not be shamed from his pro-cargo short stand.

After taking significant heat from the ever-opinionated social media community for his style choices Sunday, Walsh defended his khaki, pocketed cut-offs in a tweet Monday afternoon.

I love my cargo shorts. They are the most comfortable things ever. Who's with me? #CargoGate – MJW pic.twitter.com/MC7I7d4Koh — Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) August 8, 2016

The episode, as chronicled by Boston magazine, began after the mayor was spotted on Newbury Street, which was temporarily closed to cars Sunday for outside shopping and pedestrian activities.

In addition to a Red Sox hat and blue polo, Walsh sported a pair of white cargo shorts—a newly controversial decision after a firmly anti-cargo short article last week in the Wall Street Journal sparked an internet-wide debate over what number of short pockets should be tolerated.

Had a fantastic time at #OpenNewbury this morning – stop by and join the fun! pic.twitter.com/JG6AqwyJsU — Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) August 7, 2016


As noted by Boston‘s Kyle Scott Clauss, Walsh has been seen wearing cargo shorts in public dating back to 2014, a stark departure from the precedent set by his flat-front khaki-wearing predecessor, the late Mayor Tom Menino.

Walsh’s chief of staff, Dan Koh, backed up his boss’s statement Monday.

Unfortunately for Walsh, Koh, and other steadfast cargo shorts wearers, sales of the fashionably dubious shorts fell last year for the first time in a decade, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“It seems that guys have had enough,” Marshal Cohen, a chief analyst with market research firm NPD Group, told NPR. “With this movement towards the more athletic look, well, cargo shorts are the ones that are paying the price.”

Despite the popular backlash, Walsh is not alone as a cargo shorts loyalist.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was also pictured within the last week wearing cargo shorts. And in 2012, basketball legend Michael Jordan also was reportedly banned from a golf course, where cargo shorts are generally taboo, after he refused to change.