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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]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

* In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', our main character, his sister, and his devoted stalker all wear old-fashioned kimono. But not just kimono, ''vintage'' and ''seasonally appropriate'' designs from the early 20th century. The accessories are no exception: the author will knot the obi differently on different occasions, and always matches the characters up with classic outerwear in winter, like Inverness coats and ''kakusode gaitou''. If you know much about traditional Japanese clothing, it can be quite the sight to behold. To be frank, in that universe Japan's [[wikipedia:Era name|era name]] [[Retro Universe|is still]] ''[[Retro Universe|Showa]]'', not ''Heisei''.

* 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]].

* ''[[Seinfeld]]'''s Cosmo Kramer wears casual clothing from rougly the [[The Sixties|60s]] and [[The Seventies|70s]] throughout the [[The Nineties|90s]]. At one point, Kramer's regular clothes, while still casual, made it appear to office employees that he was working with them in an office with 90s formal business wear.

** 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]].

* ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'': The rangers wear color-coded garb from their ancient time when untransformed, and it looks pretty damn cool.

 

== 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!)

 

== Video Games ==

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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]].

* [[The League of STEAM]] are often written about and interviewed as leading examples of steampunk style.

 

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