John Mayer Explains Why He Loves Wearing Tibetan Robes

John Mayer rocks a Grateful Dead tee while arriving on a flight at LAX Airport on Sunday (June 21) in Los Angeles.

The 37-year-old musician recently chatted about his love for Tibetan robes.

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“You can use it as a background to take pictures of things for Instagram. You can use it as a blanket. You can use it as a tent. I’ve watched movies under it on the airplane�”it’s breathable! You can use it as a paparazzi shield. Maybe you get made fun of in People, but who knows who Hiroki Nakamura is that reads People magazine? Then there’s one or two people who jump into the comments and go, ‘No, actually that’s Visvim.’ That’s really hard to come by. That represents a lot of hard work by artisans in Japan,” John shared to GQ.