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{{quote|'''Kurt:''' She manages to dress like a grandmother and a kindergartner at the same time.
|On the fashions of [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl|Rachel Berry]], ''[[Glee]]''}}
Basically a character dressing in a manner that just doesn't fit the cultural norm for the character's age. It could be in clothing, hairstyle, makeup, or something else.
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Compare [[Mistaken Age]], [[Improbable Age]], [[Dawson Casting]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Evangeline from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', who constantly dresses in a [[Stripperiffic]] [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Goth loli]] manner. She ''is'' [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|considerably older than ten]], but she does not look it ''[[Legal Jailbait|at]] [[Undead Child|all]]''.
** Pick a girl in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Then, pick an outfit they've worn that isn't their school uniform or a casual after-school outfit of their own choosing. '''''Anything else''''' from this 'verse is 98% more likely to be seen as "inappropriate" by someone in real life. Given the consideration that, oh yeah, the vast majority of the cast are ''girls under the age of 15.'' And later on, a handful of ''boys under the age of 12'' (at least physically).
* Kokoto-01 from ''[[Divergence Eve]]'', she wears a very [[Stripperiffic]] outfit when on active duty, her new one in the second season even more so.
* Misao from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]].''
* Dr. Kureha from ''[[One Piece]]'' is going on 140 years old, but dresses like a teenager. She has the body to pull it, [[Butter Face|but her face]] definitely shows her real age thus ruining her intention.
* Fate of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', whose Barrier Jacket when she was nine can best be described as [[Stripperiffic]] black leather.
* Near from ''[[Death Note]]''. He wears pyjamas all the time, and he's 18 post-time skip, then 21 in the special. Then again, [[Older Than They Look|he doesn't look 18.]]
* Crystal in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' recently switched costumes to match her game counterpart in the remakes... Well that's fine, except that the [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/2/25/HeartGold_SoulSilver_Lyra.png protagonist] is an eleven year old girl who wears a overralls and a giant hat. Crys is a rather mature girl around age sixteen, so [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/8/86/Crystal_HGSS_Adventures.png the style really doesn't fit her]. It was forced upon her by her mom, who is an [[Adult Child]].
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime. 10 year old Hikari (or [[Dub Name Change|Dawn]]) and her [[Dangerously-Short Skirt|hip-length skirt]].
** Nah, that's tame compared to ''[http://www.pokemopolis.net/pics/eps/dp/maiden03.jpg this]''{{Dead link}} that her mother actually forbade her to bring on her journey.
* Mitsumi from ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' is in her mid teens at earliest but sports the same costume as her 11 year old game counterpart, who in turn wears a costume too old for her age. At times Mitsumi's clothes can look age appropriate - though her ''Platinum'' jacket fits more.
* The outfit that Bra/Bulla wears in ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' is definitely not appropriate for her age. In the Japanese version, she is not older than 10.
* [[Cheerful Child|Mii]] from ''[[Popotan]]'' wears an outfit for a [[Beauty Contest]] that looks like her normal [[Magical Girl]] costume if half of it was cut off.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Delirium's clothes would fall into this by default. Since she's been around since the earliest sentient life in the universe, she's really too old for pretty much anything she wears. She is also the youngest of the Endless, so, anytime she dresses like a little kid is a subtle nod to what she used to be.
** In ''The Wake'', she wears a fairy princess costume that looks like it's meant for a much younger kid; the skirt's very short on her.
== [[Film]] ==
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* The German boy costume worn by Mugatu during the brainwashing sequence in ''[[Zoolander]]''.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In an early episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' one of "the most difficult customers" Winfred-Louder had was an old woman who dressed herself in pre-teen clothes.
* Jordan putting her hair in pigtails and dressing childishly to persuade her gyno that she's younger than she really is, on ''[[Scrubs]]''.
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** This is played with when it comes to Lovita. She dresses inappropriately for her job but not necessarily her age as she is portrayed as younger and more hip than Steve, Cedric, and Regina. No one really calls her out on it, except Steve (when he wants to make fun of her) and Regina (when Lovita takes it too far).
* One episode of ''[[Married... with Children]]'' gives us a flashback of Kelly wearing roughly the same slutty outfit since grade school.
* One episode of ''[[30 Rock]]'' has a new cast member on Liz's show doing the baby stripper act in both dress and action and honestly seems to be her real personality. {{spoiler|Turns out she's been trying to get close to other men and take on a new identity in order to avoid her insane husband who wants to kill her.}} Liz trying to help her backfires '''INCREDIBLY
* An episode of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' had Emily getting very upset about getting middle-aged as her birthday approached. She starts dressing in faddish youth clothes, and only snaps out of it when Carol innocently buys her an identical outfit...as a gag gift.
▲== [[Theater]] ==
* At the beginning of ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' Wendla tries to convince her mother to let her continue to wear a dress that's too small for her as she's too innocent to realize why this is inappropriate for a pubescent girl in 1891 (her reasoning for wanting it is probably more of the clinging to your childhood variety).
* In ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'', when Jim comes for dinner, Amanda wears an old-fashioned dress from her youth, much more appropriate for a younger woman, as if he were calling on her instead of her daughter.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Amy's [[Stripperific]] [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] clothes in the ''[[Soul Series]]'' games, when she's only 14. The [[Girlish Pigtails]] make it even more disorienting. Talim's skimpy [[Bare Your Midriff]] outfit from the previous game isn't much better.
* ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' has Meru, a 16-year-old girl who dresses like a go-go dancer.
* The female playable character (Kotone/Lyra) from ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokemon HeartGold SoulSilver]]'' wears [
* Eddie from ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', a man in his mid-twenties or so, dresses like a bad caricature of a ''[[Dennis the Menace]]'' character. Justified, as a lifetime of mockery regarding his weight and low intelligence seems to have seriously retarded his mental development.
* Reco from ''[[Mushihime-sama]]''. She's 15, but just look at the title image of that page.
* Etna from ''[[Disgaea]]'' wears a [[Stripperiffic]] [[Hell-Bent for Leather|black leather]] outfit, but is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|mentally and physically]] around 14 or so.
** Hanako from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' Wears less then Etna, but is 9. Note that once they meet, Hanako starts wanting to be more like Etna, which naturally horrifies Adell.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' Rikku for being 15 years old wore some very short shorts, which is really nothing compared to her [[Stripperiffic]] outfit in ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'', which takes place only 2 years later.
* Bad Girl from ''[[No More Heroes]]'' wears a cutesy little [[Pink Means Feminine|pink]] dress, despite being 20, and even doing two kinds of [[Sexy Walk]] in it. It's apparently part of her mental issues.
* Alyssa, the protagonist of ''[[Clock Tower
* Meracle of ''[[Star Ocean 4]]'' wears a skintight and revealing outfit despite being a very young teenager - one who is childish and chlidlike in appearance.
* More often then not, at least one of the costumes for the obligatory young party member in the various ''[[Tales (series)]]'' games is of this nature.
** In the [[PlayStation 3]] version of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''. Karol gets a costume that consists of nothing more then tight leather pants and black shoes.
* The original version of [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/e/e8/HarpieGirl-TF04-JP-VG.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120611224908 Harpie Girl] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. [[Vague Age]] maybe, but she's still much younger than the adult Harpies, yet dresses [[Stripperiffic|much like they do]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820074806/http://www.bogleech.com/comics/comic71-helloween.htm This comic] has hellish Halloween punishments, such as making "sexy children's costumes" for that day.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Daria]]'' featured the 40ish editor of a teen magazine who dressed like a teenager.
* The ''[[South Park]]'' treatment of the "trend" of little girls dressing like skanky teenagers in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset."
* 14-year-old Ahsoka Tano in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' wears a very tiny tube top
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/the-most-inappropriate-ch_n_582732.html Along with] nipple-
* Child pageants are notorious for this.
* The way most high school girls dress is another, especially if the school they go to hardly enforces the dress code.
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