Oh yeah, besides drinking nothing but champagne Wall also says he was the first American to wear a dinner jacket, also known as a tuxedo. And there’s actually someone to corroborate his story.

Basically, back in the 1880s, the only acceptable evening wear for dudes all featured a tailcoat. Then the Prince of Wales (a real dude’s dude) and his crew started rocking tailless coats.

Henry Poole, a big time tailor and dude behind the dude sent one of these cutting edge numbers to Wall. Wall took the puppy out for a spin at an opera house and was promptly thrown out for looking like some common flightless ice bird. But the seeds had been sown and boom, flash forward to 1889, after Wall had won his crown as King Dude and gentlemen were now being permitted to wear tuxes whenever to whatever dude-hang they wanted.

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Oh, Wall also said he was a champion amateur walker with a seven minute and thirteen second mile. What? Yeah, after the Civil War when more and more people moved to the cities to live “pedestrianism,” that is competitive walking matches, became a thing. A big thing. There was no better way to pass the time. Have you hugged your internet provider today?

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After donning his final new outfit and arriving at a veranda to claim his victory a band there startedplaying, “Hail the Conquering Hero Comes” and Wall, King Dude that he was, claimed his money (which he really needed at that point) and continued in his duding duties.

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