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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~katy_gloria_same_dress_7617~~katy gloria same dress 7617.jpg\|link=Katy Keene ~~(Comic Book)~~\|frame\|~~<small>~~Thus began the [[Everything's Better ~~With~~with Sparkles\|most]] [[Pretty in Mink\|well]]-[[Pimped-Out Dress\|dressed]] [[Cat Fight]] ever.~~</small>~~ ]] A woman buys a dress to wear to some event, and is humiliated when she sees another woman wearing an identical dress. Line 8 ⟶ 7: Contrast [[Whole Costume Reference]] (in that wearing the same outfit is considered a good thing). {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼ * During the class trip in ''[[~~Azumanga Daioh (Manga)\|~~Azumanga Daioh]]'', Kaorin shows up at one point in a souvenir T-shirt... only to see Mr. Kimura wearing it, at which point she runs off to go change. Though this was more because he's an admitted [[Ephebophile]] than for social reasons.▼ ▲== [[Anime]] and[[Manga]] == ▲* During the class trip in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)\|Azumanga Daioh]]'', Kaorin shows up at one point in a souvenir T-shirt... only to see Mr. Kimura wearing it, at which point she runs off to go change. Though this was more because he's an admitted [[Ephebophile]] than for social reasons. == [[Comic Books]] == Line 18 ⟶ 17: In one story, [[Betty and Veronica]] appear at a party in the same dress, and they both act as if it must be a dream, because the thought of them wearing identical dresses is so outrageous, so terrible, that they refuse to believe it can be true. When they finally realize that it isn't a dream, not only do they destroy each other's dresses, but they wreck the entire place. Can you say [[Serious Business]]? In another story, Veronica asks Betty to make her a one-of-a-kind swimsuit, even asking if she's made any other girl a swimsuit out of a particular bolt of fabric. Turns out Betty used that fabric to make swimsuits for a bunch of guys. * ''[[~~Katy Keene (Comic Book)\|~~Katy Keene]]'' has done this with Katy and Gloria. ** In the picture above, they have the same [["Happy Holidays" Dress]], [[Pretty in Mink\|fur muff]], and even dress pose. Line 29 ⟶ 28: == [[Live Action TV]] == * There's an ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' episode about this happening to Lucy and Ethel. It climaxes with them tearing decorations off each other's (highly) overdone dresses. * There's a ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' episode about their senior prom. The girls had bought a dress they liked each but Lisa had made them some too, in order to not hurt her feelings the girls planned to change in the back of the Limousine. When they did, and went to the prom, all the girls there were wearing either Tia's dress or Tamera's dress. They go back to the Limo but they're locked out, when Ray and Lisa show up Lisa's miffed initially but in the end it all works out. * ''[[Lizzie ~~Mcguire~~McGuire]]'': Kate and Miranda wear the same outfit on Picture Day. * ''[[~~Monk (TV)\|~~Monk]]'': Randy shows up to a Christmas party with a sweater his aunt supposedly made for him by hand... except there's another guy at the party in the same sweater, and he got ''his'' at Wal-Mart. * Used in the ''[[Wings (TV series)\|Wings]]'' episode "The Waxman Cometh." When Casey goes to the grand opening of Lowell's new wax museum, she is mortified to see that the museum's wax figure of Eva Gabor is not only wearing the same dress as her, but also has better jewelry. * A variation appears in the ''[[~~Mamas~~Mama's Family]]'' episode "There's No Place Like...No Place." When Thelma is mistaken for being a vagrant and arrested, she asks the cop, "Do I look like a homeless person?" Just then, an actual bum is brought in behind Thelma, wearing the same housedress as her. The newcomer comments, "Cute dress. You get yours at the mission too?" * An episode of the 90s sitcom [[~~Living Single (TV)\|~~Living Single]] features the ladies going out to the club. Regine sees other women wearing her dress, and proceeds to go up to them and "accidentally" spill her drink on them so they'll leave to go change. * On ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', Dorothy and Blanche buy the same dress for an occasion. Each takes her dress back without telling the other, trying to be the nice one. After a brief scare that they've bought the same dress again, they reveal two totally different dresses, only to have Sophia emerge wearing the same dress as Blanche. ** In another episode, when Rose and Sophia are competing against Dorothy and Blanche in a bowling tournament, Rose and Sophia [[Invoked Trope\|invoke]] this trope by buying the same bowling shirt as Blanche, in order to throw her off her game. * In the ''[[30 Rock ~~(TV)~~\|Thirty Rock]]'' episode "Goodbye, My Friend," Jenna gives Kenneth a picture of her dress for her birthday party, telling him to make sure that no one else wears it...Only to have Cerie show up wearing it. * In a Halloween episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', the nerds initially show up all dressed as The Flash. Sheldon comments "See? This is why I wanted to have a costume meeting." ** Judging by their disappointed reactions to Leonard "calling" Frodo, it might have happened a second time. * In the [[Buffy]] episode ''Angel'', Cordelia spots a girl wearing a dress identical to her own, and accuses her of wearing a cheap knockoff of her designer original. "This is exactly what happens when you sign these free trade agreements!" And in the ''[[~~Angel (TV)\|~~Angel]]'' spin-off, Cordelia complains when she sees a woman at a homeless shelter wearing her one-of-a-kind ~~blouse -- unaware~~blouse—unaware that Angel gave away her blouse to the shelter. In "Couplet" Angel thinks that Groo is taking over his life. Wesley assures him they are two completely different ~~people -- only~~people—only to bump into Groo with Angel's [[Spiky Hair]] and [[Badass Longcoat]]. ** Angel should know better than to make light of this trope: in the [[Buffy]] episode ''Lie to Me'' he bitches about [[Vampire Vannabes]] thinking they know how vamps think, act and dress. Cue one of the said vannabes walking by dressed exactly as Angel. * In the ''[[Look Around You]]'' episode "Maths", one of the problems is to compute the probability that Queen Elizabeth III, Queen Elizabeth IV, and Queen Elizabeth V all show up at a party wearing the same dress. The answer: {{spoiler\|the party is canceled.}} * In an opening of [[The Amanda Show]], Amanda and Nancy Sullivan were embarrassed to find out they were wearing the same dress to the show, as were Drake, Josh, the Camera men and the Dancing Lobsters. * During [[The Tag]] at the end of an episode of ''[[~~Community (TV)\|~~Community]]''. Abed and Troy both [[Speak in Unison\|spoke in unison]] with and ~~[[Dresses the Same\|~~dressed the same]] as Jeff. Annie apparently wanted in on the gag too, but got stuck in traffic and arrived just after the joke had ended. * In the second All Star edition of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' (Unfinished Business), this was deliberately invoked as a joke by Zev & Justin, when they showed up to the starting line wearing the same Globetrotter gear worn by Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time & Big Easy when they originally raced together on a previous season. Line 53 ⟶ 52: == [[Newspaper Comics]] == * Parodied in a ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon, where a cowboy wearing a flowery, decorated hat balks at entering a saloon where another cowboy is wearing an identical hat. All the other cowboys, of course, are wearing the usual style of cowboy hat, all alike. Another has two chameleons in the same color at a party. Yet another is a psychic convention, where they not only wear the same dress but the exact same hair and makeup. The punchline is that [[Irony\|it was completely unforeseen]]. * Variation in [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-08-09/ this] ''[[Dilbert]]'' comic. * Subverted in a ''[[Pondus]]'' strip where Pondus' wife demands that they leave the party because someone else is wearing the same dress as her. Pondus tries to convince her that it's no big deal, until he sees that the person wearing the same dress is a ''transvestite''. Then he cries out for a taxi. * In one early ''Tank McNamara'' strip, tennis player Barb was going to play Chris Evert, and wanted an edge. Her boyfriend suggested she wear a tennis dress identical to Chris's. Barb said angrily that "even in ''jest'' that's an asinine, sexist, stupid, dumb, ''male'' idea ... and it really ''disgusts'' me that I'm going to try it." The last panel of the next strip showed Evert missing a shot while wondering frantically, "Where'd she get it? Where'd she get it?" * In a series of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' comics, Andy forces Peter to wear a dorky shirt on the first day of school: "I'm asking you to dress nicely for one day. [[Tempting Fate\|How bad can that be?]]" When he gets to school, he discovers, to his horror, that super geek Morton Goldthwait is wearing the same shirt. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Line 65 ⟶ 64: == [[Web Comics]] == * Tedd and Elliot both showing up in [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-09-02 girl's school uniform] for that weird birthday party in ''[[~~El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)\|~~El Goonish Shive]]''. Tedd [[Invoked Trope\|invokes]] it for his ([[Gender Bender\|her?]]) own reasons; Elliot [[Lampshade Hanging\|calls it as he (she?) sees it.]] * Parodied in [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971028 this] ''[[~~Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)\|~~Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip where Zoe dresses as a sexy French maid for a Halloween party, forcing Torg to change out of ''his'' sexy French maid costume. * Happens in ''[[~~College Roomies From Hell (Webcomic)\|College Roomies From Hell~~CRFH]]''. It ends badly. * Parodied in ''[[Rhapsodies]]'' [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931 here] where this makes a run in with a high ranking society lady, Kate had accidentally insulted in the [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=931 past], [[It Got Worse\|worse]]. * Happened between Ki and Trudy at a party on ''[[General Protection Fault]]''. Nick doesn't see what the fuss is, as all of the guys are wearing the same outfit. Then he realizes that he's talking to Fooker, who is the only person present whose tuxedo is ''plaid''. * Cute variant in ''[[Girls ~~With~~with Slingshots]]'', where Thea worries that her top is too old-fashioned; cue [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1172/ her girlfriend's mother] in the same outfit. == Web Original == * In one episode of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'', Team RWBY is attending a costume party where they've all dressed as each other -- Ruby as Weiss, in particular. Cue the arrival of an irate Jaune, also dressed as Weiss, growling, "One of us is going to have to change." == [[Western Animation]] == Line 76 ⟶ 78: ** During a costume party, Stewie and Brian both come as Snoopy. * Happens once in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', where [[Heroic Sociopath\|Heloise]] actually gets [[Oblivious to Love\|Jimmy's]] attention by wearing a fancy dress at a premier. {{quote\| '''Jimmy''': Oh, Heloise, nice outfit.~~<br />~~ '''Heloise''': ''(Coy)'' It's an original. ''(Sees a girl wearing the same thing and tears it to shreds)'' }} * In ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "De Plane! De Plane!", Candace finds a girl who wears the same swimsuit as her, [[The Same but More\|only]] [[Hartman Hips\|hotter]]. * Parodied in ''[[Beverly Hills Teens]]'', where Bianca and Larke wore the same outfit to a costume party (save for some color differences), and then both got changed into new outfits, that are still the same. * In the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n ~~Eddy\|Ed Edd n~~' Eddy]]'' Picture Day episode: {{quote\| '''Johnny:''' ''(holding out Plank)'' Hey, Jimmy! You and Plank ordered clothes from the same catalog! ''(Jimmy is horrified)'' }} * Done in an episode of ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''. Lilly and Mitsuki see each other and gasp... Then pan out to Mikey, Gonard, and Guano, all three ''also'' ~~wearign~~wearing the same dress. == Jokes == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100719101428/http://roflrazzi.com/2008/10/25/jonathan-frakes-patrick-stewart-no-you-go-home-and-change/ This] ''[[Star Trek: ~~the~~The Next Generation]]'' photo caption. * Those tongue-in-cheek internet lists on "Why it's Great to be a Guy" usually include this subversive chestnut: If another guy shows up at a party wearing the same outfit as you, the two of you just might become best friends for life. Line 91 ⟶ 93: [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Costume Tropes]] [[Category:~~Dresses The Same~~{{PAGENAME}}]]