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Jeans and a plain t-shirt must be the preferred outfit for time travelers—you could fit in during any period in the last 90 years.
Levi Strauss and Jacob W. Davis started marketing their riveted jeans to Gold Rush miners in 1873, so.... And your t-shirt would pass as underwear, though you'd want to add a flannel work shirt or something for more decency. Add work boots and a wrench and you could probably get in anywhere, even a much more formal place than those clothes indicate, if you mutter something about the drains...
Don’t forget your hat. And shave that facial hair!
Grow it all out and bring a razor. Pass for a beggar until you see the local style. Also just a useful item.