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See also [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] and [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]. If a character's whole ''personality'' is stuck in a bygone era, you've got [[Disco Dan]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Ryougi Shiki of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai
* Inverted in''[[Inuyasha]]'' Kagome wears modern day clothes in feudal era Japan.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Mushishi]]'', where the main character wears modern clothes in a feudal setting... [[Rule of Cool|For no reason other than that it looks cool.]] [[Word of God|According to the author]], [[Mushishi]] was originally set in the modern day, but they forgot to change Ginko's clothes when the comic changed to the feudal era. And, no, [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|nobody ever says anything]].
* Roderich/Austria in ''[[
** Grandpa Rome meanwhile ''still'' manages to look badass in Roman armor.
* Inverted- Miaka and Yui (and presumably the other two priestesses as well) in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' were both dressed in their modern day school uniforms. These wouldn't stand out ordanirily, but when you consider that most of the book is set in ancient china, then you get the picture. At one point, Tamahome plucks at Miaka's bra strap and says 'What's this?' Miaka's reaction is to call him a pervert and give him an upper-cut.
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* The Shade and the Gentleman Ghost are both [[DCU]] supervillains who dress in old fashioned finery. Justified in that both men were actually alive when these clothes were first being worn.
* The Hellfire Club, enemies of the ''[[X
== Film ==
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* Sam in ''[[Benny and Joon]]'' is first seen on a train reading a book entitled "How to Dress Like Buster Keaton". He seems to be succeeding at this. (Sam also embodies the other part of this trope, because of his odd personality and fondness for Keaton's style of comedy.)
* [[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka]].
* [[Word of God]] has it that Mother Gothel of ''[[
* The wizarding world in the ''[[Harry Potter (
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** Doctors Four, Six and arguably Seven subverted this trope with bohemian outfits that were ''never'' in style.
** Nine and Ten avert this with, respectively, leather jacket and contemporary suits which become anachronistic to their surroundings. Nine [[Changed My Jumper|dealt with it]] in ''The Unquiet Dead,'' and they travel so much, they'll end up going somewhere where they'll be out of style.
** Five ''really'' mixed this up with his choice of an Edwardian-era cricketer's outfit combined with (at the time) modern-day sneakers.
* The [[Badass Longcoat]], especially as worn in ''[[
** And Jayne, who uses a [[Hand Cannon|Lemat Revolver]], which would be a very anachronistic [[Cool Gun]] in a show set today, is constantly seen in T-shirts and jeans. The best clothes to imagine having in a Western.
* Captain Jack Harkness of ''[[
** He spends the entire time pouting until Ianto finds replacements.
** It could also be because that's the clothing he met the Doctor and Rose in.
* ''[[
** Michael Richards, Kramer's portrayer, once rationalized this by explaining that his character developed a severe case of agoraphobia as a very young man and [[Limited Wardrobe|never again went out to buy new clothes]].
* The dentist in ''[[M*A*S*H (
* ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'': The rangers wear color-coded garb from their ancient time when untransformed, and it looks pretty damn cool.
* Guidelines for writers and costumers on ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' mentioned that John Steed's clothing style was superb "but not altogether conventional" — this typically wound up looking Edwardian. (Patrick Macnee had a hand in designing his character's clothes.)
== Music ==
* When not dressed in his [[Badass Longcoat]], [[Doctor Steel]] usually dresses in an Aristocratic neo-Victorian [[Steampunk]] style, complete with top hat. (He even has his own personal clothier!)
* [[Steampunk]] [[Chap
* Revo of [[Sound Horizon]], [[Sure Why Not|amused by the fact that the fandom]] [[Creator Worship|decided to crown him king]], has taken to wearing ruffled shirts, embroidered waistcoats, cravats, breeches, and other such anachronistic items almost any time he's in
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** Jack Marshall and his late brother Neil wear [[Cowboy Cop|cowboyesque attire.]]
* Many clothes of attire in the [[Fallout]] series, especially more evident in ''Fallout3'' and ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' which cover a wide range of anachronistic clothes for the post-apocalypse, ranging from trenchcoat dusters to modern-day riot gear to 1950s parkstrolling outfits.
** Especially the Caesar's Legion in ''New Vegas''. Guess what their entire group decide to wear in the 23rd century.
* While the ''Final Fantasy'' series doesn't normally do this, some of the extra DLC costumes in [[Final Fantasy Dissidia]] do have some strange costumes as a [[Shout
== Web Comics ==
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* Fedora hats, which fell out of mainstream fashion before [[The Sixties]] but have lately come into vogue with the hipster crowd.
* On a similar note, thin ties.
* [[
* [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat|Trenchcoats]]. Add a fedora for good measure. Justified and no longer conspicuous if you're in the rainy season of a rainy climate.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]].
* Arguably the entire reason for [[Steampunk]] fashion, though in its drive to be [[Rule of Cool|awesome]], it ends up with a fair amount of [[Anachronism Stew]]. It's a pastiche of roughly 1850s-1910s fashion, with a generous helping of [[Sci Fi]] mixed in.
* Similarly, this is a major reason a lot of people join the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]].
* [[Waistcoat of Style|Waistcoats]] and pocketwatches.
* Long, over-the-elbow gloves for women; often called "[[Opera Gloves]]" (no prizes for guessing at what event they were worn), these were standard accessories of ladies' costume for evening wear (and often daytime wear) from the late 1880s through the late 1950s; they also showed up in the [[Regency England|Regency era]].
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* [[Prince]] and The Revolution did this in [[The Eighties]], in [[Rummage Sale Reject]] style. And it worked.
* National costumes from all parts of the world tend to fall into this territory and are often entirely made up in a much later period than what they are supposed to represent, as the national pride rears its head. Needless to say, they tend to be far too colourful and elaborate to have been remotely affordable [[Newer Than They Think|before the late 19th century]].
** Averted however in certain cases like Japanese ''kimono'' (variations of which have been around for several centuries) or the Filipino ''Barong Tagalog'' (which evolved from precolonial attire and is suited to the local climate).
* [[The League of STEAM]] are often written about and interviewed as leading examples of steampunk style.
* The "bluecoats" of Christ's Hospital boarding school in West Sussex, England are not only among the oldest school uniforms still in use. For while their present form's virtually unchanged for over 200 years, they've held up remarkably well to the point that when it was brought up to finally update the look in 2011, the vast majority of students refused.
* Ninnajinomiya Yoshiaki wore full samurai armor when he commanded the Imperial forces during the 1868 Boshin War. A conflict where metallic cartridges were near universal.
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