stackyFACTSMario doesn’t wear a cap and overalls because he is a high fashion icon; he wears them because drawing moving hair and arms on a 16x16 pixel grid was absolute torture. Miyamoto basically weaponized graphical limitations into a globally recognized mascot.
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