David Downs was a long-time acting teacher in the theatre department at Northwestern University. During his tenure, he took many candid photos of students, including one young (and unbelievably cute) Stephen Colbert:
He had a simply criminal head of hair, and a smile that could light up the whole damn universe.
He looked fantastic in brown suspenders:
And he owned at least one fabulous pair of white suspenders, too.
That scarf. That coat. Those dimples. CAN'T EVEN HANDLE IT.